Hardy F^c^pei^nials 



HARDY PERENNIALS ARRANGED IN A FORMAL GARDEN. 



OTHING for the cost gives such an air of refinement and adds so much cheer to 

 the country home grounds, rendering them attractive and interesting from early 

 spring until late autumn, as Hardy Perennials. They are frequently referred to as 

 "Old Fashioned 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, so much 

 finer than their ancestors that they can scarcely be recognized as their ofTsprinsr, 

 yet those grown fifty or seventy-five years ago, were indeed beautiful and enduring. 

 Our grandmothers were wise in floriculture, as they were in othei- things. Appre. 

 ciating their beauty and endurance, they doubtless realized the value of these flowers 

 on account of remaining in their gardens from year to year; greeting Ihem with sur- 

 prise 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 ornamentals, and today 

 they are as valuable and useful as they were then. 



There is no disguising the fact, however, that Hardy Perennials are by no means so generally 

 planted as their many merits entitle them to be. In other words, a great many, who might enjov 

 these most interesting of all flowers, are not fully awake to their best interests. Aside from lasting 

 endurance, Hardy Perennials possess the valuable properties of succeeding in almost every soil. They 

 can be planted with pleasure and profit in grounds of the most limited extent, (a few square feet can 

 be made to yield a bouquet every day from April until December); and results come so quickly — in a 

 few weeks, at most, from planting. It should not be overlooked that the flowers of a large number of 

 kinds remain in good condition for a long time after being gathered, and their long, graceful stems, 

 together with their delightful fragrance, render them the choicest flowers for decorating the dining 

 table, the parlor and the reception room; or for adding cheerfulness to the home of the invalid. 



Finally, and best of all — barring the novelties and a few varieties that are particularly diffcult 

 to propagate, they are low in price and increase so rapidly that the humblest cottager need not be 

 deterred from planting them. They are truly the flowers for "the million and the millionaire," 



Location. — Hardy Perennials are so democratic in their nature they quickly adapt themselves 

 to almost an7 soil or situation. However, they should not, as a rule, be planted where water remains 

 near or upon the surface for a long period, during any part of the year; or beneath overhanging 

 trees which produce a dense shade ; although there are several varieties which grow and bloom admi- 



