FAVORITE PERENNIALS 



and to keep them in a dry place during the cold 

 weather. Tritoma express blooms a month earlier 

 than T. uvaria grandiflora. 



Before I had seen the poker plant otherwise than 

 as a few spikes reared among promiscuous bloom, I 

 thought it very ugly; but recently in a small, exquisitely 

 planned garden near the sea, I saw a large mass of 

 it near an ornamental grass not unlike its own foliage. 

 There it was the most beautiful thing in the garden, 

 of pronouncedly high type and very gay. I saw it 

 later filling many vases in a large, imposing drawing- 

 room, and again felt the uniqueness of its beauty. 



The Japanese windflower, Anemone Japonica, comes 

 into prominence in the autumn, recalling then by its 

 delicate beauty the flowers of early spring. It appears 

 well when massed and is useful to plant before clumps 

 of rhododendrons or other shrubs that have lost their 

 flowers before the windflower unfolds. It also combines 

 well for autumn effects with the monk's-hood, Aconitum 

 autumnale. 



Anemone Japonica alba is the well-known white 

 variety, and rosea the original one with pink flowers. 

 Other varieties bear double flowers, of which the white 

 "whirlwind" is perhaps the prettiest. 



These anemones should be planted in the spring and 

 given a liberal covering of litter for over the winter. 



There are so many kinds of perennial asters that a 

 catalogue should be consulted for those to bloom early, 

 others to bloom late, for those with flowers of purple, 

 blue, light pink, heliotrope, or white, and for those that 

 grow high, or those that keep near the ground. 



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