Perennials to Sow Outdoors 
Salad Burnet 
Sanguisorba minor 15¢ pkt: 
Forms pretty rosettes of picot-edged 
leaves which have a distinct cucumber flavor 
in salads. Ready to eat in 60 days; makes 
a neat edging for garden paths. Self-sows 
freely for long life even if old clumps 
die out because of the richness of the 
soil. Grown in the West as a forage crop 
on dry,sandy hillsides. 
18 inches. Sun or part shade. 
Chives 
Allium schoenoprasum 15¢ pkt. 
If you can’t get a clump from the 
grocer or a friend, sow seed in vegetable 
garden. Next spring remove to herb garden 
and watch for lovely lavender flowers in 
May. Cut back after blooming and give 
side-dressing of fertilizer to have new 
shoots for snipping. 12 inches. Sun. 
Bronze Fennel 
Foeniculum vulgare 25¢ pkt. 
A bronze-leaved beauty with all the 
sweet flavor of perennial Sweet Fennel. Sow 
where plants are to remain. If your season 
is short it may not flower until the second 
year but you can use the leaves for sea- 
soning fish and salads. 5 feet. Sun. 
Blue Flax 
Linum perenne 20¢ pkt. 
One of the lovliest perennial flowers 
with graceful narrow-leaved foliage which 
waves in the breeze and is topped by a 
constant succession of new blue flowers 
every day. Likes heavy clay. 
2 feet. Sun or part shade. 
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