THE HARDY BORDER 



The " best " is what the dealer will send you if 

 you patronize one who has established a reputa- 

 tion for honesty. 



The impression prevails, to a great extent, that 

 perennials bloom only for a very short time in 

 the early part of the season. This is a mistake. 

 If you select your plants with a view to the pro- 

 longation of the flowering period, you can have 

 flowers throughout the season from this class of 

 plants. Of course not all of them will bloom at 

 the same time. I would not be understood as 

 meaning that. But what I do mean is — ^that by 

 choosing for a succession of bloom it is possible 

 to secure kinds whose flowering periods will meet 

 and overlap each other in such a manner that 

 some of them will be in bloom most of the time. 

 Many kinds bloom long before the earliest an- 

 nuals are ready to begin the work of the season. 

 Others are in their prime at midsummer, and 

 later ones will give flowers until frost comes. If 

 you read up the catalogues and familiarize your- 

 self with the habits of the plants which the dealer 

 offers for sale, you can make a selection that wUl 

 keep the garden gay from May to November, 



On the ordinary home-lot there is not much 

 choice allowed as to the location of the border. 

 It must go to the sides of the lot if it starts in 



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