PERENNIALS 



Whenever, in driving about, I see a par- 

 ticularly fine plant in a dooryard, I make 

 friends with its owner, and later suggest that 

 if she (it is usually "she") will give me a 

 small root of this or that, I will bring her 

 some plants or bulbs from my garden, of a 

 kind which she has not. So we are both 

 equally benefited. In this way I was once 

 given a plant of Valerian, which has a tall, 

 beautiful white flower with a most delicious 

 odour Uke vanilla. It blooms for three weeks 

 in late May and early June. From this one 

 plant there are now in the garden a number 

 of large clumps several feet in diameter, and 

 I have given away certainly fifty roots. 

 Valerian is a small white flower in good-sized 

 clusters on long stems, seen now-a-days only 

 in old-fashioned gardens. I am told it cannot 

 be bought of horticulturists. 



One must have Chrysanthemums, but where 

 the thermometer falls below zero there are 

 not many to be bought, other than the pom- 

 pon varieties, that will blossom in the garden 



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