PERENNIALS 101 
Not only be chary of varieties in the hardy 
garden and borders, but use the same restraint as 
to the multiplication of species. The wonderful 
big notes are struck by solid effects such as are 
to be found in nature. Bring your stock of Phlox 
divaricata—the type color—or Alyssum saxatile up 
to one hundred plants, which is easily done in 
a few years. Set them out in a long, narrow 
drift of each and the point will be plainly appar- 
ent. This course does not call for the slighting of 
other desired perennials; they can be grouped as 
fillers, or used in the reserve garden and odd spots 
on the place. Often space by the south or east 
wall of a barn may be used for colonizing peren- 
nials not required for the garden. They make a 
fine show there because of the isolation and are 
always handy for cutting. 
Perennials are the cheapest of all plant invest- 
ments, everything considered. Most of them in- 
crease so rapidly that in a few years the result 
makes the money laid out seem ridiculously small. 
A large number of the commonest kinds may be 
had at fifteen cents each—less by the dozen or 
hundred. Novelties and rarities are seldom more 
than half a dollar in this country. In England 
all kinds of high prices are paid willingly; some 
of the 1912 novelties were $24 each. 
