THE HABDY FLOWEB GABDEN 77 



PAET II 



THE HARDY FLOWER GARDEN 



The modern Flower Garden embraces the cultivation of such a variety 

 of plants that it may be as well to enumerate the different groups or 

 sections in which they are usually placed. Thus, many gardens have 

 a place set apart purposely for the cultivation of rock-plants and 

 alpines ; also specially prepared borders for choice herbaceous perennials 

 of all sorts ; streams, pools, or lakes for water and marsh plants ; and 

 also sufficient space for the cultivation of ornamental trees and shrubs. 



Although the plants belonging to the various groups are described 

 in their natural orders in the following pages, and may easily be found 

 by referring to the Index, there is a certain convenience in having a list 

 of them all together for ready reference. To facilitate obtaining further 

 information about them, the page at which any particular plant is 

 described is given immediately after the name. 



Should the reader, therefore, wish to have a list of the best Annuals, 

 Herbaceous Perennials, Eock Plants, Water Plants, Bulbous Plants, 

 Ornamental and Flowering Trees and Shrubs &c., he has only to con- 

 sult the lists given below. If he does not know any plant mentioned, 

 he will find a description of it vnth cultural information at the page 

 quoted after the name. 



At the same time should there be a plant in his or her garden the 

 name of which is unknown it will be possible to ' run it down ' or 

 determine to which natural order or genus it belongs by means of the 

 ' Key ' given at p. 121. 



Although the lists are fairly exhaustive the author does not 

 recommend the cultivation of all of them in every garden. This would 

 indeed be impossible in most cases, but a selection should be made 

 according to the taste of the reader, and the known capability of his 

 soil, and what it will grow. As a rule it is more satisfactory to grow 

 a few different kinds of plants well, and study their peculiarities and 

 tastes, their likes and dislikes for certain soils and situations &c., than 

 to fill a garden with many kinds that may be quite unsuitable, or 

 cannot be properly attended to. 



