CONTINUOUS BLOOM IN AMERICA 



of stocking a garden which may not appeal to the 

 average gardener. 



Some of the favorite plants* should be two years 

 old before they are considered large enough to be ad- 

 mitted to the garden, where only strong bloomers are 

 desired. This rule is not only important for the pur- 

 pose of obtaining the full color effect the first year, 

 but also because the slower growing young perennials 

 in a crowded border are so insignificant that they may 

 be overlooked and hoed up by a careless gardener, or 

 else smothered by larger neighbors. 



PLANTS BY PURCHASE 



When a full-grown garden is wanted at once, un- 

 less economy forbids, the quickest way to secure it, 

 of course, is to purchase in large plants from a nursery- 

 man all that is required. But if these plants should 

 come very small, turn them into the nursery for a year 

 or two; even this will be quicker than raising at least 

 the slow-growing varieties from seed. 



If the plants have to mature in a nursery, a garden 

 of annuals for one or two seasons would be an in- 

 teresting experiment. 



Remember that in planning for just one fair-sized 

 clump of certain kinds of plants, it will take from three 

 to ten single nursery plants set near together to form 



* Pyrethrum, Columbine, Delphinium (tall var.), Oriental Poppy, Platy- 

 codon, Statice. 



