CHAPTER IV 
EXPENSES 
Cost of plants — Labour — Suitable gardeners — Where 
economy has to be considered — A ^5 border for 
a quarter of an acre garden. 
It is quite impossible to lay down any laws 
on this subject, for the cost of plants depends 
on whom you go to for them, and varies as 
much as the cost of seeds. Prices vary accord- 
ing to the locality, price of labour and land, 
and whether the nurseryman you patronise 
has, or has not, established his name by costly 
advertisement and long - established merit. 
Many of the prices asked by him are ridicu- 
lously high in proportion to the value of the 
plant. Many perennials are as easily and 
cheaply produced from seed as are annuals, and 
are worth pennies, not shillings. Some nursery- 
men give you large clumps for the same price 
as small bits cost at other nurseries. The man 
who is buying his herbaceous border at so 
much per 10 square yards, or, say, £5 per yard 
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