24 Making a Garden of Perennials 



instance, and there is danger of their 

 being dug up by impatient amateurs 

 who have either forgotten their pres- 

 ence or imagined they were dead and the 

 ground vacant. It is well, therefore, to 

 place in the fall some cane stakes at each 

 plant or in a row around a group of this 

 class to indicate their presence. I also 

 place stakes at each lily as they generally 

 occupy open spaces between perennials, 

 and I seldom wish to disturb them if it 

 becomes necessary to remove one of the 

 perennials. 



With few exceptions peonies and the 

 gas plant, for instance perennials need 

 dividing and resetting every two or three 

 years, which should be done in the early 

 fall or early spring, but never when the 

 soil is very wet, because in the subsequent 

 manipulation of the soil to replenishing its 

 food supply, it should be dry enough to 

 break up into fine particles. The Japa- 

 nese anemone should be replanted only in 

 the spring. It is in bloom and in active 



