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F. H, HORSFORD, CHARLOTTE, VERMONT, 
25 cts. per doz. should be added. When no letter follows, the plant is too large 
for mailing. These rates for postage are simply estimates. If when the plants 
are sent it is found that too much has been sent, extras will be added to cover this 
or the excess of postage returned. Seeds are an exception, however, and are pre¬ 
paid at prices given. In ordering, please use the order blank and envelope. 
Remittances may be sent at my risk by post-office order on Charlotte,* Ver¬ 
mont, by draft or registered letter. Please write your full address plainly in all 
communications. Half a dozen will be furnished at dozen rates. Those who 
wish to purchase in larger quantities will please make known their wants, when 
better rates will be given if my stock is sufficient. 
Address 
F. H. HORSFORD, Charlotte, Vermont. 
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HARDY PERENNIALS FROM SEEB. 
H ARDY PERENNIALS are not generally as easily grown-from seed as annuals. Many of them 
are slow in coming up, and when once up are quite tender until they attain fairly good size. 
In a light, mellow soil some do very well planted at once in the open ground, but others need 
the protection of a coldframe until they have sufficient roots to withstand the sun. Glass is, 
no doubt, the best covering if closely cared for, but I like the protecting-cloth quite as well. If the 
sun comes out unusually hot, and the glass is down, the plants may be killed in a short time, but with 
the cloth there is no danger. A light cotton will answer when only a small frame is used. It is best 
to have two frames, so the seedlings may be transplanted as soon as they are of sufficient size. This 
should be done as soon as a few roots are formed, and before they begin to crowd. The seeds may 
be sown in pots or in rows. If in rows, the soil in the frame should be rich, light and mellow. A 
mixture of light, sandy loam and leaf-mold is excellent. If they are sown in pots, these should be 
filled a quarter or a third with crocks or small stones to insure good drainage, and the balance with a 
good, rich soil, such as has been advised for the rows, and in which the seed is sown. After the first 
transplanting the seedlings need a little more light, especially after two or three days, and if the 
weather is mild the covering may be raised, admitting light and air. I like two or three grades 
of the protecting-cloth, using the heaviest at first, and the thinner, which admits more light and air, 
after the plants have become stronger. If everything has gone well with them, the young seedlings 
will do to go outside in four to six weeks after the first transplanting; but the covering should be left 
off three or four days previous to this, in order to harden them off before the change. By giving the 
young seedlings a little exposure beforehand, and shading afterwards, I have had fairly good success 
in transplanting outside at first; but I like much better the plan of transplanting into the frame first, 
and then outside, as the plants seem enough better to pay for the extra work. 
THE'R0GK GARDEN. 
T HIS class of gardening is receiving much more attention in America than in former years. It 
is not only quite essential in the landscape development of many places, but it'enables the 
cultivator to manage successfully many species that he might never otherwise succeed with in 
level culture. A conical rockery that would cover a six-feet circle would afford room for a 
great many more plants on its larger surface—at least three times as many—as the six-feet circle 
would accommodate were a bed made on the ground instead of the rockery ; besides, a greater 
variety might bo grown. The perfect drainage which the rockery would afford would be just the 
requirement which might be lacking for some species in the level bed. Where only a small bit of 
land for plants can be had, like some small corner in a city back yard, a rockery of this sort will 
make room for a great many more plants. In building such a rockery, a conical mound of earth is 
made to cover the foundation, and stones are laid, first around the bottom, then above those embedded 
