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May 1, 1908 
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The Young Folks. 
A Little Garden Calender. 
[By Atsert Bicetow Parne, in ‘ The 
Delineator.’] 
«I don’t remember when you planted 
that chrysanthemum,’ said little Prue to 
the Chief Gardener one bright morning. 
‘No, it was when you were a very little 
girl— about four years ago.’ 
‘Why don’t you have to plant them 
every year?” asked Prue. 
‘Why, because yor see they are peren- 
nials—they live on year after year.’ 
Prue did not seem to understand, so 
the Chief Gardener explained. 
‘There are three kinds of plants,’ he 
said, ‘ annuals, biennials, and perennials. 
The annuals live but one seoson. They 
come from the seed each spring, and when 
they have grown and bloomed and made 
-seed for another year they die, Sweet 
peas and sunflowers and Davy’s corn are 
annuals, 
‘And radishes and beets, said Davy. 
_ No, Davy, that is where you are mis- 
taker ’ 
. ¢But-we have to plant them every 
spring,’ said Davy. 
_ £We do so to get good vegetables for 
our table. But if we were planting only 
for seed, we would leave the roots in the 
ground, or take them up.and reset them 
in the spring. Then they would send up 
; long stalks to bloom and, bear seed. Beets 
and radishes and turnips and most such 
things are biennials, which means that 
they bloom the second year and die. 
They spend all the first year in laying up 
strength in the roots, to use in making 
seed the second summer. Some biennials, 
like the cabbage, lay up this strength in 
the thick stalk, The strength which they 
take up from the earth and from the air 
through their leaves they do not spend in 
flowers and show, but turn it into food 
for themselves, and the food is so good 
that men gather it for their own use.’ 
‘TI don’t think that is quite right,’ said 
Prue, ‘after the poor thing has worked 
so hard all summer to be ready to bloom 
next year, for us to take and eat it.’ 
' The Chief Gardener smiled and shook 
‘his head. 
‘T’m afraid that we do not think much 
about the plants’ rights,’ he said, ‘ unless 
they happen to be the same as our own. 
And, after all, there are plenty seeds 
‘saved every year—more than are ever 
planted.’ 
‘ And are potatoes biennials, too ?’ asked 
Davy. 
‘No; potatoes are perennials. In the 
right climate they would live on year 
after year, laying up strength each year 
for the next season’s growth, Dahlias are 
perennials too, and most of the grasses, 
and, of course, all trees and shrubs. Pinks, 
sweet williams, and the hollyhocks are 
perennials, and live through the winter 
though they bear a great deal of seed, 
which shows how determined they are to 
live on. The chrysanthemums also bear 
seed, and most plants have at least two 
ways, snd some'as many as four ways of 
producing others like them, Your onions, 
“Davy, can be produced in four different 
ways. ‘They can be grown from seeds, 
or from sets, which are little seed’ onions. 
taken out of the ground and kept through 
the winter; from bulblets, which are the 
little onions 1 ou saw growing on the top. 
of the stalk last summer, and from mul- 
tipliers, which are large bulbs broken 
into several small parts.’ 
‘I should think an onion was surely 
perennial enough with four ways of keep- 
ing alive. said Davy. 
‘Do you think that you can name the 
three kinds of plants now ?’ said tne Chief 
Gardener, turning to lfttle Prue. 
‘Yes,’ said she, putting out three little 
fingers, ‘Annuals, that have to die every 
autumn, like my sweet peas; biennials, 
that have to die every other autumn, like 
Davy’s turnips, Only we don’t let ’*em 
die—we kill ’em and eat ‘em just when 
they are ready for their best time; per- 
ennials, that have a lot of ways to live 
and never die at all.’ 
The Chief Gardener laughed. : 
‘Well, that’s pretty good for a little 
girl, I think we might almost make a 
- poem out of it. 
The annuals we plant each Spring, 
They perish in the Fall ; 
Bienntals die the sccond year, 
Perennials not at all. 
‘T’ve made a rhyme too, said Prue. 
‘It’s about the kinds of plants, in a 
‘different way. This is it:— 
The kinds of plants are these— . 
Herbs, shrubs, and trees, 
‘Why, I think we shall have to make 
up some more.’ said the Chief Gardener. 
‘Tt will help us to remember ’ 
It was not many days after that the 
. Chief Gardener was digging among his 
vines, and called to the children, who. 
came running, 
