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tions that suit them best and under which they 

 will meet with that natural restraint necessary 

 to curb rampant growth and prevent encroach- 

 ment on grounds set aside for other purposes. 

 This class of hardy perennials is more fre- 

 quently employed by the landscape gardener 

 who has an area of considerable extent to plant 

 than by the owner of a city lot. 



The latter, however, will find that in the vari- 

 ous species and varieties of the herbaceous per- 

 ennials nearly every sort of plant is to be 

 obtained which he may desire. The group 

 affords plants for almost every situation, every 

 soil condition, and for almost every purpose. 

 Varying in height from the lowly growth of a 

 creeper to eight or ten and sometimes even 

 twelve or fourteen feet, affording foliage that 

 in itself is decorative, providing flowers for 

 every month from early spring until late 

 autumn, and including almost every shade in 

 their range of color, the perennials are by all 

 odds the best plants to establish in the space of 

 the small garden. 



While they are easily raised from seed very 

 few of them bloom the first season when so 

 planted. To obtain immediate results, there- 

 fore, it is best to obtain plants a year or more 



