6 Introduction 



a plant supposedly easy to grow, fails to 

 materialize, to try it in another part of 

 your own garden, and if it does not do well 

 there, discard and forget it the world is 

 full of good things. 



Due to the fact of the perennial's habit 

 of annual recurrence the cultural direc- 

 tions are different from the flowers of but 

 a season's bloom. There are some vital 

 fundamentals that every gardener should 

 know and some short cuts to success that 

 every one may know. Since perennials, 

 then, form the very kernel of the garden 

 these are things of first importance in the 

 growing of flowers and will be here elab- 

 orated sufficiently to give the reader an 

 impetus that will carry him at a bound 

 into the inner circle of the garden mys- 

 teries. 



