October, 1913 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Canterbury Bells, Campanula Media 



in bringing a hardy garden to perfection, than in using the 

 things which have only one brief season's life. 



If you expect to buy plants already started from the 

 nursery, then many of them may be set out in the Fall, and 

 will do as well as if you had left them until the rush of 

 Spring, when they might be overlooked altogether. Many 

 you can start from seed, either that which you sow yourself 

 or nature often sows in lavish amount where hardy flowers 

 have blossomed and gone to seed, such as Foxglove, Holly- 

 hocks, Coreopsis, the Perennial Larkspurs and others 

 things which are styled "self sowing." Then there are some 

 of the Annuals which will give better results if they are sown 

 in the Fall. Some of these, such as Larkspurs and Sweet 

 Peas, will not be put in with the idea of having them ger- 

 minate but they will give better and earlier results next 

 season if put in now, as they will have a chance to start to 

 active growth before the ground is in shape to plant in the 

 Spring. 



In writing of hardy Perennial plants the argument is 



A garden of Columbines, Aquilegia 



often made, that when once set out they will need no atten- 

 tion for years. While this is true of some of them, as a 

 general rule it certainly is not true. They cannot well be 

 divided up into two exact classes, but the nearest that one 

 can come to a general rule is to give each individual plant 

 those conditions which will secure for it a maximum degree 



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