HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 
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The Special Value of Perennials 
(Continued from page 286) 
there, as the colony becomes crowded. In 
some instances the number of plants may 
be left the same, and the individual size 
reduced by cutting off portions with a 
trowel, which may be accomplished with¬ 
out lifting the plant from the ground. 
Peonies are an exception to the rule, how¬ 
ever, they should be planted two feet 
or more apart, as they dislike frequent 
disturbance. 
Perennials usually are planted for per¬ 
manent effects, but there is a growing 
tendency to use some of those that bloom 
in the spring and very early in the sum¬ 
mer as bedding plants. Seedlings or 
small plants raised from cuttings are 
bedded out in the autumn, after the sum¬ 
mer flowers have come to the end of their 
tether, and the year following, directly 
the height of bloom is past, they are rooted 
out and either thrown into the compost 
heap or divided and placed in nursery 
rows. This is the plan of Belvoir Castle, 
where every spring there is a superb dis¬ 
play of bedded-out perennials on a scale 
that may be imagined from the fact that 
the annual consumption of aubrietias alone 
is some seven thousand. 
Such temporary use of perennials with¬ 
in the limits of parterre formality and the 
set designs of park flower beds is quite 
common in England. The example is one 
that might well be emulated in the United 
States, where, aside from the most famil¬ 
iar bulbs, it is rare to see any plants but 
pansies, English daisies, arabis and for¬ 
get-me-nots bedded out in spring. There 
is a long list to choose from, without 
touching the doubtful flowers such as 
various kinds of ranunculus and anemone. 
This is not an expensive form of gar¬ 
dening, if one has the time for the addi¬ 
tional labor required. Seed of perennials 
does not cost a great deal and as soon as 
a stock is started, propagation by cuttings 
uses up no money and very little time. 
When seed is purchased, secure the very 
best obtainable. This costs more, but is 
decidedly worth the difference. Ameri¬ 
cans are apt to imagine that they are pay¬ 
ing a high price for seed when they ex¬ 
change a dime for a packet and to regard 
a nickel as a sort of standard price. The 
English, on the other hand, think little of 
paying the equivalent of twenty-four, 
thirty-six and forty-eight cents a packet; 
for they know what superior seed means 
and the choicest is never too good for 
them. 
Seed is the best means of securing some 
of the perennials that are not in the Am¬ 
erican trade. Not only is the risk of im¬ 
porting plants done away with, but speci¬ 
mens born here are better fitted to stand 
the climate. One of the few American 
alpine gardens of importance has been 
thus stocked. Aside from this, the ques¬ 
tion of using seed depends a great deal 
on circumstances. It is the quickest way 
of getting a considerable quantity of lark¬ 
spur, Iris pseudo-acorns , aubrietia, Bap- 
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