146 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



maneney and age. Just as we value an old article 

 of silver or ehina or furniture that has been handed 

 down from mother to daughter for generations, over 

 a similar article that has just been bought from a 

 dealer, even though it may be of equal antiquity and 

 undoubted genuineness, so the old-fashioned garden 

 should have its sentiment, its legends, to have the real 

 old-time spirit, and although we cannot all inherit 

 old plants and gardens, we can, at least, establish 

 those that will in time come to have a beauty and 

 dignity of place and association. 



The hardy perennial plants are the garden's most 

 profitable asset, increasing in value from year to year 

 and earning a rich increment of size and progeny. 



I think the inception of a hardy garden should 

 have much to do with sentiment ; that one should first 

 plant those things which most appeal to one and those 

 which are in any way associated with one's intimate 

 life. Plants gleaned from the gardens of dear friends, 

 especially those who no longer meet with us, have a 

 subtle charm quite distinct from those which merely 

 represent a financial transaction. 



There are two points to be considered in the laying 

 out and planting of a garden of hardy plants; one 

 that the garden must be allowed room to grow — it 

 should not be planted in a strictly circumscribed space, 

 so that the first planting sets the limit for all future 

 planting, but rather, it should be so arranged that 



