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HARDY PERENNIALS 
Price: 50c per plant, $5.00 per doz., $35.00 per 100, except where noted 
Varieties starred (*) are suitable for Rock Gardens. Varieties daggered (+) are suitable for Cut Flowers. 

Aster Harrington’s Pink 
(Description Page 32) 
The use of perennials offers the gardener unlimited possibilities for an all season garden of color, charm and interest. 
This versatile group of plants—some low growing, others tall; of every hue and tint; of different seasons of bloom 
and representing many types of foliage and habits of growth—will answer any requirement your conditions and taste 
may make. The most popular use of perennials is the mixed flower border, but they may be used advantageously as 
foreground to shrubs, in odd nooks and corners, to accent the beauty of a pool or birdbath, in rock gardens, as ground 
cover, and to augment the evergreens which landscape the home. Perennials are the answer to questions of gardeners 
turning from Victory Gardens “What shall I plant?” A selection of perennials will give the maximum return for the 
minimum effort. 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 
Since Perennials are such a diversified group of plants no exacting rules can be given for their culture. 
Perennials do best in a loan soil. Humus should be added to a heavy clay soil. If the soil is highly acid the 
addition of lime is recommended. In preparing the ground for a perennial planting, a complete fertilizer 
such as a 6-8-6 or one of a similar analysis may be added at the rate of 3 pounds to 100 square feet. If 
quantities of manure have been used this commercial fertilizer is unneccessary. 
When clumps of Perennials have spread and become too large for the bed they should be lifted and divided. 
This should be done every few years as the strong rooted plants rapidly deplete the soil. 
After the blooming season is over and the plants go dormant, the tops should be cut and burned as they 
harbor insects and disease. 
Perennials should be given winter protection by an adequate mulching of leave, straw, corn stalks or manure. 
This prevents alternate freezing and thawing of the top soil. The mulch should be applied in December and 
removed in March. 
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