April, 1910 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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Has given them an enduring place in the hearts of every lover of the beautiful in Nature that no other form of planting can claim. While natural and restful in general 

 effect, the beauty of the hardy garden is ever new and ever appealing, for flowers may be found in it through the season — something of interest every day. Inspira- 

 tion for the best outdoor decoration of recent years has come from gardens planted long ago, with hardy flowers. They have grown into richer, fuller and mellower 

 beauty with the passing of the seasons, instead of fading with time, sometimes out-living, on the same spot, three generations of owners. 



Old-time Gardens Models of Beauty and Grace 



We are learning- to take the finer, more enduring old gardens for our models, welcomingback to 

 our borders the drifts of Snow-pinks, the gay Peonies and Hollyhocks, the sweet-breathed Day Lilies, 

 the brilliant Poppies, the Larkspurs, the Phloxes, the Irises and all the year's train of old-time hardy 

 flowers. Yearly we find new uses for them, entirely within the bounds of real landscape art — for in- 

 stance, the employment of pretty, creeping plants to cover bare spots rejected of the grasses and the 

 planting of tall perennials among trees and shrubs for life and color during midsummer. 



Plants of Equal Value to Gardeners and Amateurs 



The renewed popularity of hardy, herbaceous perennials rejoices the heart of the landscape gar- 

 dener, for it means his emancipation from petty and futile efforts with tender foreign materials and his 

 return to broader, freer, more permanent effects with less expensive materials. With perhaps only a 

 strip of dooryard at his command, the true amateur gardener finds the hardy plants his source of 

 greatest pleasure. The showy annuals yield a temporary beauty and fragrance at comparatively small 

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