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old. This involves greater expense but it is 

 far more effective. Such plants set out in the 

 spring will bloom the following summer, or, if 

 set out in the autumn, will endure the winter 

 and, as the frost leaves the ground in the en- 

 suing spring, will send up their tender foliage 



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Achillea - 

 {Achillea Ptarmica, 

 var. "The Pearl") 



Columbine 

 (Aquilegia chrysantha) 



and bloom-stalks and, long before it is season- 

 able for the planting of the seeds of annuals, 

 they will be in vigorous growth. The gardener 

 who has such plants to observe finds the early 

 spring one of the most interesting periods of 

 the whole year.; He goes from bed to bed or 

 border to bord>Br removing a bit of the win- 



