PERENNIALS gt 
does not give the result of tests in the United 
States, ascertain whether the plant is catalogued 
by reputable American houses. The perennials 
that they offer are a very much abridged list as 
compared with British ones and generally they are 
either reliably hardy as far North as Boston, or 
relative tenderness is plainly indicated. 
All of these things should be clearly understood 
before any definite attempt to grow perennials is 
made. Such understanding is absolutely essential 
for determining the special value of perennials not 
merely to the garden world but narrowed down 
to the province of your particular garden. What 
you want to know above all is the worth of peren- 
nials to you as working material. 
This enables the choice from the embarrasingly 
large list to be made with the intelligence that 
prevents useless waste of time and money in the 
endeavor to do what is not worth while in an in- 
dividual case. 
For the great pleasure in growing perennials is 
to devote time and money to those that are dis- 
tinctly worth while in one’s own case. There is a 
host of them available after the most ruthless proc- 
ess of rejection that any one of a thousand cir- 
cumstances would necessitate. The sacrifice will 
never be so great that the true philosopher will 
not be able to find solace in the garden of a dif- 
ferently situated neighbor or friend, or a public 
collection of plants. 
In making a list of availables for final choice 
