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MANUAL OF GARDENING 



they may be sown in early spring indoors, in the window, the 

 hotbed, the coldframe, or the greenhouse, preferably in boxes 

 or pans, as for growing annuals. Some gardeners sow seed 

 right in the coldframe. I have tried both ways, and find the 

 boxes best, as the different varieties of seeds do not come up at 

 the same time, and you can remove them from the close frame 

 to more airy quarters as soon as the seed comes up, whereas, if 

 sown ill a frame, you would have to give them all the same 

 treatment. When the seedlings are large enough, I trans- 

 plant them into other boxes, and put them into a shady part 

 of the garden, but not under the shade of trees, as there they 

 will ' draw ' too much. About the fifteenth of September plant 

 them in the garden where they are to bloom, or if the garden 

 is full of summer-flowering plants, put them in beds in the 

 vegetable garden, to be planted out in the early spring, and 

 give them a light covering of straw or manure to keep sudden 

 changes of the weather away from them." 



Hardy perennial herbs may be planted in September and Oc- 

 tober with excellent results; also in spring. See that they are 

 , protected with mulch in winter. 



Perennial herbs suitable for laivn and ''planting^' effects. 



Some of the striking plants that are valuable for la^vn plant- 

 ing in the North, chosen chiefly on account of their size, fohage, 

 and habit, are mentioned in the following brief list. They may 

 or may not be suitable for flower-gardens. It is impossible to 

 give to this list any degree of completeness; but the names 

 here printed will be suggestive of the kinds of things that may 

 be used. The asterisk (*) denotes native plants. 



Yucca, Yucca filamentosa.^ 

 Funkia, Funkia, of several species. 

 Peltate saxifrage, Saxifraga peltata* 

 Rose mallow, Hibiscus Moscheutos.^ 



