WORKING' PLANS FOR GARDEN PLANTING 
GRACE TABOR 
Methods of Adapting Given Plants to Special Cases and Suggestions for the Effec- 
tive Use of Materials That are in Harmony With the Situation and the Picture 
®^LTHOUGH the mixed perennial border is always with 
us and does to a very great extent shift for itself, it is a 
» feature of the garden that responds to a study of its 
ta.vvjjj possibilities with more whole-hearted enthusiasm than 
almost any other one thing. Its constantly recurring handicap 
is an overload of one kind of plant, which means of course 
a gap in bloom when said plant has “gone by.” To the end 
that this handicap shall be overcome for one thing, the border 
requires study and careful planning; and it requires it further, 
so that widest 
diversity shall 
prevail through- 
out its entire 
it 
shall be truly a “mixed” border in other words. It will doubt- 
less be noted that neither Peonies nor Iris are included in 
these plans for two borders along a walk, one shady and one 
sunny. These are purposely left out for the reason that 
they are among the standard flowers that do not rightly 
seem to belong in the very democratic company of the mixed 
border. Other plants will be found in greater or less abundance 
according as they require massing or not in order to produce 
their fullest effects. 
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‘HROUGHOUT the borders bloom is well distributed 
in each season; and this is above all other things a matter 
for strictest attention. For it is not only important to have a 
succession of flowers in a mixed border; but it is also extremely 
EARLY FLOWERS 
KEY TO PERENNIAL BORDER IN SHADE 
MFDSEASON FLOWERS 
LATE FLOWERS 
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Ajuga reptans, blue 
Anthericum Liliago, white 
Polemonium replans, blue. 
Dicentra spectabilis, pink 
Myosotis palustris, blue .... 
Dodecatheon Media, pink. . 
Mertensia virginica, blue .... 
Polygonatum giganteum.zt'Zute 
Trillium grandiflorum, white. . 
Anemone pennsylvanica, white 
Astilbe Arendsi Ceres, blue 
“ White Pearl . . . 
Digitalis gloxiniaeflora, various 
Hemerocallis Kwanso, orange 
Aquilegia canadensis, red 
Lychnis chalcedonica, scarlet . 
Monarda didyma, red 
Aconitum Napellus 
Fischeri !• blue 
Wilsoni 
Hemerocallis aurantiaca, yellow 
Funkia subcordata gr., white. . . 
Hypericum Moserianum, yellmi 
Platycodon grandiflorum, blue 
Stenanthium robustum, white 
KEY TO PERENNIAL BORDER IN SUN 
EARLY FLOWERS 
Geum coccineum, red 
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27 Anchusa Italica Dropmore, b 
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MIDSEASON FLOWERS 
Achillea ptarmica fl. pi., white 
Asclepias tuberosa, orange . 
I ATF. FLOWERS 
Doronicum caucasicum, yel. 
Dictamnus Fraxinella, pink . 
Thalictrum adiantifolium,i£;/j. 
Campanula Medium, various 
Clematis recta, white 
Delphinium hybrids, bl., wh. 
Phystotegia virginica, pink 
Polemonium coeruleum, blue 
Heuchera sanguinea, coral. 
Althea rosea, various 
Liatris pychnostachya, purple . . 
Pyrethrum hybridum, various . . 
Artemisia lactiflora, white 
Aster Chapmani, blue 
“ formosissimus, violet 
Boltonia latisquama, mauve . 
l halictrum dipterocarpum. pink 
Chrysanthemum, pompon, var. 
Eupatorium coelestinum, blue 
Lythrum roseum, Perry's, rose 
Veronica subsessilis, blue 
