THE GARDEN PRIMER 



in the open ground after May i5th. They require 

 winter covering. 



HALF-HARDY ANNUALS are to be treated in much 

 the same way as tender annuals, requiring, as they do, 

 the full time of a long summer in which to develop. 

 They should not be sown out of doors until after June 

 ist. 



TENDER PERENNIALS require still more care in 

 starting them. Sow under glass and do not transplant 

 to the open ground until after May i5th. 



TENDER BIENNIALS may be treated as tender 

 perennials. 



TENDER ANNUALS are sown under glass in early 

 spring and the seedlings protected from both excessive 

 sun and cold. They are transplanted from flats to 

 pots or boxes and finally set out after May 25th, by 

 which time they are well grown. 



SELF-SOWING plants are those which perpetuate 

 themselves through the seed which they drop upon the 

 ground around them. They cannot be depended on 

 to come up in just the right place, but they may usually 

 be transplanted. Poppies, however, are among those 

 self-sowing plants which do not survive transplanting 

 and therefore must be weeded out or allowed to remain 

 where they spring up. 



SHRUBS AND TREES are woody stemmed plants 

 which differ very little, actually, from each other. 

 Usually a shrub has many branches which start at the 

 ground, while a tree has a single trunk. This is not 

 uniformly true of either, however, and there is really 



