Making a Garden of Perennials 

 PREPARING THE BEDS 



TPVO we want a successful flower bed 

 * ' one that our neighbors will envy 

 or one in which the plants are struggling 

 to exist? If we want the former and who 

 does not? we must give our plants good 

 pasturage. They are as fond of the fat 

 of the land as we are, and, since they 

 gladden our hearts with their radiant 

 blooms, we should treat them fairly. And 

 how? By giving them a good, deep soil 

 for their root-run, not only rich in food, 

 but loose and friable. 



Most all virgin soils contain ample plant 

 food, but the deeper part lacks the result 

 of the action of air, sun and frost, and 

 the natural humus of decayed leaves and 

 grasses. The plant food it contains is 

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