THE GARDEN PRIMER 



results is probably the hardest thing that the inexperi- 

 enced have to contend with. Those who do not know 

 from actual experience in gardening the time it takes 

 to get results equal to the vision of the mind's eye, 

 have usually an unhappy season finding out. 



But, for the comfort of these, there is the "hurry- 

 up" garden, to tide them over. Let none be persuaded 

 to regard annuals as more than this however, else each 

 year's spring will find them just where they were the 

 year before — and the "mind's-eye visions" will never 

 come true. As a make- shift for first years however — 

 and after that as incidents, scattered here and there 

 among other things where spaces need filling tempo- 

 rarily — annuals are a godsend. They have the advan- 

 tage too, of being easier to raise from seed, ordinarily, 

 than the long-lived but slow growing perennials. 

 Thus they are excellent material for a beginning. 



The perennials given in the list appended however, 

 may all be raised from seed, and are not difiicult to deal 

 with. The time for sowing has not been given because 

 all perennials require practically the same treatment and 

 should be planted at the same time. They devote a 

 year's time usually to becoming established — to their 

 own growth — before they undertake to reproduce them- 

 selves. Therefore they do not blossom ordinarily 

 until the second year, no matter how early the seed may 

 be put in the ground in the spring. But there are some 

 exceptions to this: these are marked with an asterisk 

 in the margin, and may be treated as if they were annuals 

 — that is, they may be sown after all danger of frost is 



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