PERENNIALS 



the roots of each plant. Buds should not 

 be allowed to form until September, and the 

 new shoots should be pinched back until 

 then, to make the plants strong and bushy. 

 1 do not envy any one who has only the 

 great, solemn, stiff flowers of the prize -show 

 variety. An armful of the hardy garden 

 ones, with their delicious odour, is worth a 

 green -house full of the unnatural things 

 which are the professional gardener's pride. 

 When you can keep twenty or more vases 

 filled from your own garden with these last 

 blossoms of the year, in all their lovely 

 colours, and not miss one of them from the 

 plants, you will agree with me that they are 

 the only kind to raise. 



Perennials, sown in rows in the seed-bed 

 in April, will be nice little plants by July, 

 when they should be lifted and transplanted 

 some six inches apart. The portion of the 

 seed-bed where the annuals were raised can 

 be used now for the purpose. This is par- 

 ticularly necessary for Larkspur, Columbines, 



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