and bulbs in a border they have never 

 seen, have no idea ot its size, its lines, its 

 position, etc.? 



To tell an individual he must put tall 

 plants in the background and graduate to- 

 wards the front of his herbaceous garden, or 

 border, with lower growing things is about 

 all they reasonably can say, if they do not tor- 

 get to tell the names of the tall plants, how 

 tall they are and how long they bloom; how 

 you can have a succession of bloom until late 

 Autumn, making August and September and 

 October as lovely with certain plants as was 

 June and July. 



A subscriber has written me: "I saw in a 

 garden book the most fascinating picture of 

 one section of a planting of a herbaceous bor- 

 der. I followed it exactly in one part of my 

 border and found before even the last of July 

 that part was bereft of color and bloom." 



Naturally it was bereft of color and bloom 

 before the last of July. As this planting was 



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