Hardy KVpohs ii<iLs. 



FORMAL GARDEN PLANTED WITH HARDY PERENNIALS 



Nothing for the cost gives such an air of refinement and adds so much chper to the 

 country home grounds, rendering them attractive and interesting from early in spring 

 until late autumn, as Hardy Perennials. They are frequently referred to as " Old Fa- 

 shioned Flowers" and as " Flowers from Grandmother's Garden." There is a reason for 

 their being so termed and a good one — which at the same time is a high compliment paid 

 them. Although the varieties of today are, as a rule, much finer than their ancestors as 

 scarcely to be recognized as their offspring, yet those grown fifty or seventy-five years 

 ago, were indeed beautiful and enduring. Our Grandmothers were wise in floriculture, 

 as they were in other things. Appreciating their beauty and endurance, they doubtless 

 realized the value of these flowers on account of remaining in their gardens from year to 

 year; greeting them with surprise and delight as old friends met again, each recurring 

 spring, and growing more lavish in their wealth of bloom as the years pass by. At all 

 events, Hardy Perennial Plants, Flowering Shrubs and Hardy Vines were planted by 

 them to the exclusion of practically all other ornaments; and today they are as valuable 

 and useful as they were then. 



The general planting of Hardy Perennials was followed by what may justly be 

 termed the " rage for" or "era of Bedding Plants"; tender plants with highly colored foli- 

 age or flowers ; brill ant and effective indeed but without fragrance or sentiment. Mr. J. 

 Wilkinson Elliotr, an authority on Hardy Perennials, at a meeting of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, said : 



"There has been so much written and said on the subject, and the great advantages 

 of gardening with hardy plants and shrubs are so apparent, as compared with tender bed- 



