144 YARD AND GARDEN 



that in sections of the north plants thus ob- 

 tained can not establish themselves before the 

 deep hard freezes of winter set in. The plants 

 are not well prepared as a result to resist the 

 cold, and, in the following spring, the gardener 

 is likely to find that many of the plants have 

 perished. He rushes to the conclusion, then, 

 that perennials are anything but hardy and 

 makes up his mind that hereafter he will con- 

 tent himself with the usual spring planting of 

 annuals. But where it is possible to obtain 

 perennials early enough in the fall to , insure 

 some root growth in their new quarters before 

 winter, the fall is quite as good a season for 

 planting as the spring. Many gardeners have; 

 found that they are not able to obtain nursery- 

 grown plants before October. In some sections 

 October is early enough but in other sections it 

 is too late and where this is obviously the case 

 or, in other words, where the winter sets in 

 earlj-^, fall planting is not at all advisable and 

 the perennials should not be set out until 

 spring. 



PREPARATION OF BEDS 



Beds or borders wherein the herbaceous per- 

 ennials are to be planted should be extraor- 



