CHAPTER III 
PLANNING AND PREPARATION OF THE 
HARDY FLOWER GARDEN 
THE reader who happens to secure a new garden, 
or takes over one that has been so long 
neglected as to necessitate practically re-making, 
has the opportunity to make the best possible start, 
the only limitations to his opportunities being 
environment and the character of the soil. 
It is not proposed in this book to furnish numerous 
plans showing the arrangement of beds, borders, 
paths, etc., for with even a lengthy series of such 
diagrams it would still be necessary to urge that the 
proper modelling of the garden must be a matter of 
individual effort, wherein personal taste and desire 
must compromise with unalterable circumstance. 
It is, however, quite proper, and let us hope will be 
useful to indicate certain matters in connexion with 
the arrangement of the garden, and to suggest the 
observance of certain principles, and the adoption 
of certain methods that are calculated to ensure the 
happiness and success of the plants to be grown. 
For the most part, hardy perennials love the 
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