thought, if not more than other parts of the 

 garden. 



So many subscribers have written me re- 

 igarding the difficulties encountered in the 

 making of the herbaceous border, or, as I have 

 been requested by several garden clubs to call 

 it, the herbaceous garden, because to our 

 American minds the word "border" certainly 

 savors at least of an edge, a frame or an outer 

 line, whereas in England the term herbaceous 

 border might mean a great planting of peren- 

 nial, bi-ennial and annual things varying in 

 size from a border eight by forty feet to one 

 ten times that in size. Nevertheless, large or 

 small herbaceous borders mean exactly the 

 same thing. 



Many correspondents complain they get no 

 real assistance from the plans they find in 

 garden books indicating where to place this 

 or that plant. This is not surprising. How 

 can writers definitely and positively tell their 

 readers where to plant certain roots, clumps 



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