ON THE SOWING OF 

 SEEDS OF HARDY 

 HERBACEOUS BLAWTS 



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HE promotion, improvement and reconstruction 

 o£ the hardy garden should be planned for early 

 in July. Rather early, maybe you are thinking, 

 but it is not too early. This is the time when all 

 the seed of the uncommon, much coveted hybrids should be 

 sown. August or even late July sown seed will produce 

 seedlings that will survive the Winter only in cold frames, 

 whereas early July sown seed are sturdy plants, quite out 

 of the seedling class by late September, well able to winter 

 in the open with protection, starting growth in the Spring, 

 weeks before cold frame plants could possibly be planted out. 



Plan now for a great cutting garden, a garden where 

 armfuls of pink Hollyhocks and blue Delphiniums may be 

 cut and not rob it, where the newest hybrid and sweetly rem- 

 iniscent old-fashioned hardy flowers may be grown, grown 

 in such abundance that cutting them is a joy. 



Sow these seed just as you do seed of annuals. Order 

 seeds of Aconitums, Adenophora, Adoris, hardy gold and 

 silver Alyssum, Amsonia, Anchusas, Anemones Sylvestris 

 and Japanese, Anthemis, St. Bruno's Lily, Arabis, Armeria, 

 Columbines (only the hybrids with long spurs) , Michaelmas 

 Daisies, Aubretias, Campanulas, Cerastium (Snow in Sum- 

 mer) Daisies, Bellis and Shasta, Delphiniums, especially 

 King, Belladonna, Grandiflora, Chinensis and the English 

 hybrids (seed obtainable here) Foxgloves, Eupatoriums, 

 Gaillardias, Eremurus, decorative grasses tall, medium and 

 dwarf, Heucheras, Hollyhocks, give preference to the sin- 

 gle pink, buff, salmon, and scarlet, Lobelias, Lupins, all of 

 them, Lathyrus, Linums, Forget-me-nots, Evening Prim- 

 roses, Phlox, the finer sorts, Physostegias, Platycodons, Ori- 



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