42 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



ned to stand from nine inches to a foot or more apart 

 according to the variety. Plants which will stand 

 transplanting may be lifted and planted elsewhere. 



Seeds of hardy perennials may be sown in the open 

 ground and allowed to remain until fall or even the 

 following spring; if planted in May no protection 

 will be needed, but if planted in August it will be 

 well to protect the planting with lath screens raised 

 a foot from the ground. A very excellent way of 

 starting hardy perennial seed is to sow it in long 

 rows through the vegetable garden and give exactly 

 the same treatment as that accorded the beets or 

 other vegetables, thinning the plants when up and 

 cultivating throughout the summer. In the fall they 

 may be lifted and planted where they are to remain, 

 or they may remain where planted until the follow- 

 ing spring, protecting the plants, if of a character 

 which is benefited by protection, by boards leaning 

 against stakes driven into the ground between the 

 plants, or by evergreen boughs laid over them, or 

 better still, leaning against a pole attached to stakes 

 driven between the rows. The evergreen branches 

 should be set tips downward so as to shed rain and 

 wet. Pansies, hollyhocks, garden pinks and all plants 

 which retain a crown of leaves during winter are 

 especially favored by this form of protection. 



In planting seed of annual poppies, foxgloves, sweet 

 alyssum and the like it is only necessary to scatter 



