38 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



nials — ^which wiU continue to come up season 

 after season from the original stock when once 

 the seeds take root, and we have come to plan 

 for permanent gardens, that shall fill our hearts 

 with the joyousness their beauty will lend 

 throughout the season when Nature dons her 

 loveliest raiment. We have come, too, to un- 

 derstand that just sticking a seed or two or a 

 root into the ground anywhere is not all there 

 is to gardening. Year after year our study 

 of the ABC of home outdoor floriculture initi- 

 ates us into the simple mysteries of garden 

 craft, so that our gardens to-day are as lovely 

 as those that ever gladdened the sight of the 

 American home garden-makers of the early 

 period. 



Autumn planting is an important part of the 

 maintenance of the home garden. There are 

 not in the whole realm of the Goddess Flora 

 flowers more exquisite than the hardy species 

 that lend themselves so admirably to perT.a- 

 nent planting — ^the Sweet Williams, Delphin- 

 iums, Foxgloves, Canterbury Bells, Pyre- 

 thrum, Montbretia, Iris, Hollyhocks, Anem- 

 ones, Primroses, Saxifrage, and the like. Oc- 

 tober should be a busy month in every garden, 



