Archive image from page 107 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1914 curriesfarmgarde19curr_11 Year: 1914 ( 102 CURRIE BROTHERS COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. HARDY FLOWERING PLANTS. For the Herbaceous Border. ficial rotte Hardy Flowering- Plants, or Perennial Border plants, have within recent years attained to a most important position in the domain of horticulture. Their usefulness in securing certain landscape effects and in carrying- out color schemes in connection with shrubbery planting and their own indi- vidual beauty, not to mention their great usef
Archive image from page 107 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1914 curriesfarmgarde19curr_11 Year: 1914 ( 102 CURRIE BROTHERS COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. HARDY FLOWERING PLANTS. For the Herbaceous Border. ficial rotte Hardy Flowering- Plants, or Perennial Border plants, have within recent years attained to a most important position in the domain of horticulture. Their usefulness in securing certain landscape effects and in carrying- out color schemes in connection with shrubbery planting and their own indi- vidual beauty, not to mention their great usefulness in affording cut flowers at a time when other flowers are unobtainable, are surely winning for them in this country that recognition of their worth and value which they have for many years commanded in Europe, where they enjoy a popularity not exceeded by anv other class of plants. Our stock embraces a carefully selected assortment, each va- riety being the best of its kind yet introduced. The whole, or a carefully selected number of them, will make a most effective bed or border, affording by its variety and succession of bloom a vast amount of pleasure throughout the entire season. In the description of each we give the height, color of flowers and the season it usually begins to bloo™. . Cultivation—Hardy Perennials succeed well in almost any location, but in general prefer a full exposure to the sun. Anv good garden soil suits them, if well enriched with Bone Meal, or well rotted barnyard manure. Frequent loosening of the soil during summer, and watering freely m dry weather, are the essentials after planting. A light covering of manure in fall is not a necessity, but is bene- as a winter protection, and enricher of the soil. The manure, if _. d, is usually dug into the ground in spring. A M. ASlik. J» The demand for LARGE PLANTS of Hardy Perennials lias now be- come so general that we now prepare and offer only this grade of stock; this insures a better and mor
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