THE HARDY GARDEN 85 
few of the advantages that evergreen shrubs and 
those with attractive twigs and‘ berries offer are 
taken advantage of. There are winter days when, 
if the garden is not an altogether comfortable 
place to walk in, it may be a pleasant sight from 
the window. 
A mistaken idea of the hardy garden is that it is 
the most expensive. This is true only of the initial 
expense, and not always then. If everything has to 
be purchased at the outset, the creation of a large 
hardy garden does mean considerable expense; but 
even then, the investment being a permanent one, 
the cost at the end of a decade or so may be less 
than the total amount that would have been laid 
out for the perishable material of ten consecutive 
summers. 
There is the economy in labor also to think of. 
A well-made hardy garden can go for many years 
without complete replanting at any one time; some 
have gone a generation or more and shown no 
material deterioration. The changes, in other 
words, may be made by piecemeal and, if need be, 
at any convenient time, whereas if the foundation 
is not hardiness everything has to be done over 
each year. 
It is labor saved in the end to spade the beds or 
borders fifteen or eighteen inches deep and work 
in a fair quantity of well-rotted manure. If the 
soil is really poor, take it out to at least the depth 
of three feet and fill up with entirely new and 
good soil. What with frequentstivxing.ofsthe-goil 
