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Hardy  Flowering  Plants 
Part  I. 
Amateur  Gardening. — In  England 
where  hardy  plants  are  universally 
grown,  almost  every  rural  home  is  sur¬ 
rounded  with  beautiful  hardy  flowers. 
Tho  beautifying  of  the  home  grounds  is 
encouraged  by  the  horticultural  societies, 
prizes  being  offered  and  awarded  fo  the 
dwellers  in  the  rural  districts  for  the 
best  kept  yards  and  gardens,  also  for  the 
best  specimen  plants  and  display  of  cut 
flowers.  Annual  exhibitions  are  held 
at  which  the  products  of  the  amateur 
gardeners’  skill  is  displayed,  tho  winners 
being  rewarded  with  substantial  prizes. 
Among  the  less  prosperous  classes,  the 
adornment  of  the  home  grounds  is  large¬ 
ly  performed  by  the  women  folks,  the 
plants  being  mostly  raised,  planted  and 
tended  by  them,  many  of  them  being  quite 
skillful  and  successful  growers.  Their 
success  is  not  only  a  groat  credit  to 
themselves,  but  also  to  the  communities 
and  districts  in  which  they  reside,  and 
what  is  true  of  England  in  this  respect 
is  also  true  of  other  European  countries, 
to  a  greater  or  lesser  extent.  P>ut  in 
America,  excepting  a  few  scattering  dis¬ 
tricts,  there  is  but  limited  interest  taken 
in  the  matter  of  beautifying  the  home 
surroundings.  There  are  thousands  of 
rural  homes  that  are  annually  surround¬ 
ed  by  coarse  grass  and  weeds,  that  could 
be  made  beautiful  and  attractive,  with  a 
very  small  expenditure  of  money,  plus  a 
little  labor  of  the  members  of  the  home. 
Every  home  should  he  made  attractive 
and  pleasant  and  there  is  nothing  that 
will  go  as  far  in  bringing  about  this 
happy  result,  as  surrounding  the  home 
with  beautiful  plants  and  flowers.  Na¬ 
ture  designed  them  to  beautify  and  har¬ 
monize  man’s  surroundings.  To  fail  to 
use  them  to  the  greatest  extent  our 
means  or  size  of  grounds  will  permit  is 
to  deny  and  deprive  ourselves  of  the  en¬ 
joyment  of  the  most  beautiful  and  withal 
the  most  pleasing  gifts  from  the  great 
Creator. 
A  Selected  List. — In  the  hopes  of 
awakening  a  deeper  interest  in  this  fea¬ 
ture  of  rural  home  life.  I  have  made  up 
the  following  list  of  desirable  and  easily- 
grown  hardy  plants,  that  any  one  with 
a  little  judgment  and  care  can  grow  from 
seed  successfully.  Most  of  the  sorts  in 
the  list  will  succeed  in  any  kind  of  soil 
that  is  moderately  fertile  and  not  too 
wot.  and  when  once  established  (bien¬ 
nials  excepted),  will  with  a  little  care 
last  for  years.  A  five  or  10-ccnt  packet 
of  each  sort,  should  give  sufficient  plants 
to  make  quite  a  creditable  showing  in 
the  border  or  garden.  There  are  many 
other  beautiful  and  desirable  hardy  flow¬ 
ering  plants  not  included  in  this  list, 
some  of  which  are  not  or  cannot  he  propa¬ 
gated  from  seed,  and  others  that  may 
be  propagated  from  seed,  but  require  such 
careful  management  that  the  inexperi¬ 
enced  would  scarcely  suceeed  with  them. 
These  plants  may  he  purchased  from 
florists  and  nurserymen  at  nominal  cost, 
selections  of  which  may  bo  made  from 
the  catalogue  of  any  of  these  firms. 
Aquilegia  (‘Columbine.  )  — The  Co¬ 
lumbines  are  one  of  the  most  elegant, 
beautiful  and  graceful  of  our  hardy  gar¬ 
den  flowers,  particularly v  the  large-flow- 
ored  varieties.  Their  blooms  are  produced 
in  late  Spring  and  early  Summer,  and  are 
borne  on  stems  two  feet  or  more  above 
the  beautifully  divided  fern-like  foliage. 
The  exquisitely  spurred  flowers  are  pro¬ 
duced  in  abundance.  Seed  may  he  sown 
from  early  Spring  to  July,  in  the  cold 
frame  or  shallow  boxes.  Tho  small  plants 
may  lie  transplanted  into  two-inch  pots 
or  into  flats,  spacing  them  two  inches 
apart,  and  may  be  planted  to  their  perm¬ 
anent  quarters  as  soon  as  large  enough 
to  handle  conveniently,  or  they  may  he 
allowed  to  complete  their  season's  growth 
in  the  seed  hod  and  transplanted  to  the 
border  the  following  Fall  or  Spring,  set- 
ing  the  plants  15  to  IS  inches  apart 
Antiiemis  or  Golden  Marguerite. — 
Tinctoria  and  K  el  way  succeed  in  quite 
poor  soil,  and  arc  considered  by  many 
as  a  most  satisfactory  hardy  plant.  They 
are  profuse  and  continuous  bloomers, 
bearing  all  Summer  daisy-like  yellow 
flowers  splendid  for  cutting.  Height  of 
plant  IS  to  24  inches.  Seed  may  be 
sown  from  early  Spring  to  latter  part 
of  July,  and  the  young  plants  handled 
in  the  same  manner  as  directed  for  Co¬ 
lumbine. 
English  Daisy  (Beilis  Porennis). — 
While  these  are  strictly  biennial,  they 
are  so  beautiful  and  easily  grown  no 
garden  should  be  without  them.  They 
grow  about  four  inches  high,  and  pro¬ 
duce  their  large  double  white  and  pink 
flowers  in  curly  Spring.  Seed  should  be 
sown  not  later  than  the  middle  of  Au¬ 
gust.  Plant  to  permanent  quarters  in 
October,  spacing  the  plants  about  six 
inches  apart. 
Campanula  or  Bellflowers. — This 
group  of  beautiful  and  most  interesting 
flowers  contains  both  hardy  perennials 
and  biennials;  they  are  of  much  variety 
and  form,  some  being  dwarf  and  rather 
compact,  while  others  are  tall  and  of 
most  imposing  habit.  Perhaps  the  most 
interesting  and  beautiful  as  well  as  the 
most  satisfactory  section  of  the  family 
The  Flower  Girl 
are  the  biennials,  familiarly  known  as 
Canterbury  bells,  (Campanula  Media). 
These  make  bushy  plants  2%  to  three 
feet  high,  and  in  June  arc  literally  cov¬ 
ered  with  handsome  bell-shaped  flowers, 
ranging  in  color  from  pure  white, 
through  the  various  shades  of  pink,  blue 
and  lavender.  I  form  the  flowers  tire 
single,  double  and  cup-and- saucer  shaped, 
the  latter  being  considered  by  many,  the 
finest  of  the  species.  The  Canterbury 
bells  are  well  adapted  for  pot  culture, 
but  attain  to  their  greatest  beauty  when 
grown  in  the  garden.  They  are  also 
elegant  for  house  decorations  as  cut 
flowers.  Seed  of  Canterbury  bells  should 
not  be  sown  earlier  than  June  15th. 
Sow  in  the  cold  frame  or  flats,  and  when 
the  young  plants  are  two  nr  three  inches 
high,  they  should  be  pricked  off  into 
small  pots  or  flats  three  inches  apart, 
and  as  soon  as  they  begin  to  crowd  in 
the  flats  or  have  filled  the  pots  with 
roots,  they  should  be  transplanted  to 
the  border  or  garden.  Give  good  culti¬ 
vation  until  Fall,  and  at  the  approach 
of  Winter  cover  lightly  with  forest 
leaves  or  other  light  mulch  to  protect 
the  plants  somewhat  against  damage 
from  alternate  freezing  anil  thawing. 
Branches  of  pine  or  spruce  make  a  most 
excellent  Winter  mulch,  and  are  par¬ 
ticularly  well  adapted  for  the  protection 
of  hardy  herbaceous  plants.  Uncover  the 
plants  as  soon  as  freezing  weather  is 
over. 
Shasta  Daisy. — Alaska  is  the  best  of 
this  class  of  plants,  being  a  decided  im¬ 
provement  over  the  original  introduc¬ 
tions.  Very  popular  as  a  cut  flower.  The 
glistening  pure  whi.te  flowers,  four  to 
five  inches  across  are  produced  in  great¬ 
er  or  lesser  abundance  throughout  the 
Summer  and  Fall.  Very  easily  grown 
from  seed,  which  may  he  sown  any  time 
from  Spring  to  mid-, Summer,  either  in 
boxes,  cold  frame  or  open  ground.  Plant 
to  permanent  quarters  15  inches  apart, 
soon  as  large  enough  to  handle  conven¬ 
iently.  K. 
