CHAPTER V 

 WHEN TO PLANT 



In one way or another, a garden may be commenced 

 at any season. It is never too late to make some 

 kind of a start for the future. Spring, of course, 

 brings the most opportunity for work, and it is the 

 best time for sowing perennials and Campanula medium 

 for the next year. 



When desiring in summer to begin a new garden, 

 one can devote first efforts to laying out the beds 

 after consulting Chapter III on bed space: also a 

 seed-bed or nursery may be prepared with the aid 

 of suggestions given in Chapter II, in order to stock 

 the future garden at a lesser expense than when plants 

 are purchased. Important work can be accomplished 

 in August, for then is the very best time for planting 

 the Poppy, Lily candidum, Peony, and German Iris,- 

 and for sowing certain hardy annuals as explained 

 on page 29. With perennial seeds, the earlier sown 

 the better for plants that should give satisfactory 

 bloom the next year. 



HARDY PERENNIALS 



May blooming hardy perennials should be moved, 

 if possible, in the autumn; the earlier the better in 



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