Making a Garden to Bloom 
This Year 
PART ONE— GENERAL 
THE KIND OF GARDEN 
I T is hardly news to any reader, I am 
sure, to be told that there are three 
great classes of plants — of flowering 
plants, let us say — from which a garden 
may be stocked ; that these are perennials, 
biennials, and annuals ; and that peren- 
nials, once established, either from seed 
or root, persist and bloom year after year ; 
biennials start from seed one year, do not 
blossom until the next — usually — and, 
having fulfilled a life round, die at the end 
of the second year; and annuals come 
from the seed, mature, blossom, produce 
seed, and die, all in one year, or, more ac- 
curately speaking, in one summer. But 
we will remind ourselves of this because we 
