Catalog of Hardy Perennials 
For Old-Fashioned Gardens and Rockery 
Also Shrubs, Roses and Vines for Permanent Effect 
America’s Hardy Garden 
Fashions in gardening have waxed and waned since the days of Colonial glory, but through 
the shifting changes of continental formality, there has ever emerged pure and quaintly 
charming, that typical embodiment of America, the old-fashioned hardy garden. Like 
cosmopolitan America, it has assimilated all the adaptable qualities of the best European 
styles into a conglomerate type, rather than created a distinctly new form for itself. It has 
gathered in its bosom that host of hardy pioneers who can withstand the struggles and 
hardships of our cold north winds, and bleak mountain peaks, and who, undaunted, can 
brave the rugged virgin soils of a new country. Sturdy native blooms and foreign titled 
queens alike find place side by side in the shelter of its enfolding borders. Imperishable, they 
rise more vigorous and strong with each succeeding season, instead of weakly living out 
their little Summer and leaving an empty garden in their wake next Spring. Each year sees 
the garden assume a fuller bloom, maturity that reveals the memories of its youthful past 
and hopes for its unknown future. From earliest Spring to latest Fall there is a constant 
procession of flowering color and beauty that makes of the garden enclosure a wonder spot 
on the earth. Once planted in their appointed places they firmly establish themselves and 
need no further attention from human hands, fully repaying our thoughtfulness in placing 
them there by a riot of beautiful colors and forms. Such is the hardy perennial garden of 
old-fashioned favorites. 
As we stroll through its informal by-paths, the reminiscent past comes floating before us, 
inseparably bound up with the sentiment of the flowers. One by one they troop through the 
imagination linked with the romance of former days. The tall Spireas, the jaunty Holly¬ 
hocks; the tinted cup and saucers of the Campanulas; the glorious full-blown petals of the 
Paeonies; and the delicious fragrance of the lowly Lavender. Even the names themselves 
are rich in that flower lore beloved by all true gardeners. The climbing Roses bend their 
profuse bouquets over the Bachelor Sweet William; the Phlox group of multitudinous 
wonderfully garbed sisters nod in friendly fashion to the elegant spikes of Larkspur, their 
neighbor; and when the frost is in the air the golden yellow Pompons of the Chrysanthe¬ 
mums are still smiling gayly at the sun amid the rayed and starry beauty of the Michaelmas 
Daisies. 
The names and stories of the hardy garden members are laid before you in the preceding 
pages, and all the joys of foregathering a goodly company of congenial, companion blooms 
that will blend harmonious colors together and that will afford the fullest succession of 
bloom throughout the garden year are revealed in the list of “PALISADES POPULAR 
PERENNIALS,” now at your service. 
TERMS OF SALE 
The prices are net, except being subject to 5 per cent discount when cash 
accompanies order; otherwise payable in thirty days from date of invoice on 
approved credit. F. 0. B. Sparkill, N. Y. 
