THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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THE almost entire exclusion of the great wealth of hardy plants from American gardens in favor of a few — hardly 

 a score — of tender ones has so impoverished them of all real beauty as to make them monotonous. In almost 

 every garden are seen the same stereotyped carpet and ribbon beds, mere lines of color, that are as unchanging 

 during their season of four months as the patterns of carpet, and that perish entirely with the first frost. The 

 entire labor and expense is renewed the next season, and the annual outlay is limited only by one's willingness or ability 

 to pay. Hardy flowers have all the artistic advantages and all the practical ones as well. Their first cost being their 

 only cost, and their greatly increasing in size and beauty year after year, makes an investment in them yield an annua! 

 dividend of loveliness not to be computed in any ordinary way. 



We have seen a garden where early spring is ushered in with myriads of snowdrops, crocuses and violets peeping 

 through the grass, with yellow daffodils ar.d scarlet tulips, with rarest blue of scillas, and with odor of hyacinths; and 

 later with Lies-of-the- valley, and lilac, and hawthorns, and numerous flowering shrubs. June — the month of flowers — 

 finds our garden fairly aglow with floral beauty, roses everywhere, in groups, on fences, sprawling on the grass with their 

 wreaths of loveliness, clambering over bushes, ar.d here and there covering even the tops of the trees with flowers of 

 pink or white bloom. Not only roses, but monarch poppies, peonies, columbines, early-flowering clematises and irises in 

 a multitude, and Easter lilies in all their purity, ar.d the grand rhododendrons, second only to roses, and with them 

 later, the glorious Auratum lilies showing stately above their rich greens. 



With this grand June overture to summer, our garden follows quickly with a succession of lovely and changing 

 scenes — of day lilies, hardy pinks, exquisite Japan irises, and a procession of stately lilies, commencing with June and 

 ending only with frost ; of phloxes, hollyhocks — single and double — and clematises with their wreaths arid garlands of 

 purples, pinks and whites ; of foxgloves, larkspurs and evening primroses ; and our garden, daily, until frost, will have 

 new attraction. 



Arranged with some judgment at first, this garden might be left to take care of itself ; time would but add to 

 its attractions, and the happy owner might go away for years and find it beautiful on his return. 



We have gathered together the best collection of hardy plants and bulbs in America, and will send catalogue 

 and information about hardy gardens on request. 



"A Plea for Hardy Plants," by J. Wilkinson Elliott, gives much information about hardy gardens, with plans 

 for their arrangement. We have made arrangements with the publishers of this book to furnish it to our customers at 

 a very low price. Particulars will be sent on request. 



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