20 HARDY PERENNIALS 
Then let us view the matter from another stand- 
point, and see what can be done in the way of 
selecting plants that will revel in, or at the least 
accommodate themselves to the conditions that 
prevail. 
The range of Hardy Perennials is so wide, and 
their likes and dislikes are so varied, that scarcely 
a garden exists that cannot be made the comfortable 
home of some of them, the great thing being to 
select the right plants for the site and soil, rather 
than to be for ever striving to convert the site and 
soil into an entirely artificial home for some exacting 
subjects. 
Fortunate, of course, is he who possesses a garden 
of deep rich loam, providing sunny borders, shady 
nooks, well-drained slopes and moist hollows ; with 
shelter from rough winds but suffering no dis- 
advantage from overhanging and ravenous-rooted 
trees. In such a place the whole glorious wealth 
of hardy perennials may be planted at will, to 
provide a dehghtful ever-changing picture through- 
out all seasons. 
In the making and furnishing of such a garden 
one may find full scope for artistic and aesthetic 
taste. The arrangement of colour schemes, Spring 
garden, evening garden, the garden of fragrance, 
and of course the Rock and Water gardens will be 
within the range of possibilities such as every garden 
lover yearns for; but were a book written solely 
for those who are thus favourably placed, its utility 
