A LITTLE BOOK OF PERENNIALS 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



A double border of great charm Frontispiece 



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An arbor to frame portions of a perennial border 12 



Plan for a backyard perennial border 14 



A border cut through an orchard 16 



Staking perennials 20 



Perennials in a coldframe 24 



Plantain or Day Lilies about a pool 27 



Attractive groupings of lU'rennials 28 



Tiarella cordifolia 30 



Allegheny Vine or Adlumia 42 



Adonis 43 



Monkshood or Aconitum and Anchusa 4G 



Japanese Anemone and Wild Asters 48 



Columbines and Sea Pinks .'50 



Arabis or Rock Cress 51 



Butterfly Weed or Asclepias 54 



False Indigo and English Daisy 59 



Plume Poppy or Bocconia 60 



Butterfly Bush or Buddleia 62 



Canterbury Bells 64 



Poppy Mallow, Turtle Head, Clematis and Carpathian Harebell 66 



Snow-in-Summer and Coreopsis 69 



Shasta Daisy, the giant among fortune tellers 74 



Delphinium or Hardy Larkspur 76 



Sweet William, an old favorite 78 



Clove Pink,, incomparable for edging 79 



Bleeding Heart and Gas Plant 80 



A mass of Foxgloves we all may have 83 



Leopard's Bane, Globe Thistle, Gaillardia and Purple Gone Flower. . 86 



A Shaded Nook of Ferns and Plantain Lilies 91 



Closed or Bottle Gentian 95 



Giant Reed or Arundo 98 



Helen's Flower or Helenium 103 



Maximilian's Sunflower, one of the choicest late flowers of Fall 105 



Lemon Lily and Kansas Gay Feather 107 



