Sow seeds of the heuchera hybrids that range in 

 color from the palest pink through to red, also the 

 charming heuchera Nancy Perry, a wonderful cut- 

 ting variety, with lovely sprays of the truest coral 

 pink, another good color we need in the mixed 

 border. Perry's gracillima with its long waving 

 flower stems of crimson is one of the needed reds 

 too, and so is Briziodes shading from pink to red. 

 Then there is the new race of heuchera con- 

 vallaria in white and rose and growing to eighteen 

 inches which is rather tall you know for heucheras. 

 Fortunately seed of all these artistic, graceful 

 varieties can be obtained for Summer sowing. 

 ^ Saxifraga, too, is uncommon, that is why we 

 should procure seed of it in all the tints of pink, 

 white, rose-mauve, and crimson and grow them 

 for our borders as a background for our fine 

 strains of pansies and violas, iberis, perennial 

 alyssums and Spring primroses. 

 ^ You will never, never have that rich abun- 

 dance of perennials unless you grow them your- 

 self. You know how small a space one hundred 

 plants will cover in the border and when you con- 

 sider that you mu^t pay from fifteen to thirty 

 dollars for a hundred plants that twenty-five 

 or fifty cents worth of seed would supply, you 

 simply mu^t realize that you cannot have so great 

 a display with so little cost in any other way ex- 

 cept by growing them, and oh! it is the mo^t fas- 

 cinating work, such a spur to a possible waning 

 enthusiasm, so stimulating and educational to 

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