. Dreer's garden book 1926. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S SELECT Hardy Perennial Plants. A Hardy Perennial Border The growing popularity of the Old-Fashioned Hardy Garden Flowers, the inhabitants of the perennial garden is not at all surprising when we consider the many varied and pleasant changes which take place throughout the entire growing season in a well- arranged hardy border, in which every week—yes, every day— brings forth something fresh and new to int
. Dreer's garden book 1926. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S SELECT Hardy Perennial Plants. A Hardy Perennial Border The growing popularity of the Old-Fashioned Hardy Garden Flowers, the inhabitants of the perennial garden is not at all surprising when we consider the many varied and pleasant changes which take place throughout the entire growing season in a well- arranged hardy border, in which every week—yes, every day— brings forth something fresh and new to interest and delight even the most critical. Beginning in April, the early-flowering varieties open their flowers often before the snow has entirely disappeared, and continue, with constant changing variety, throughout the summer until late in the fall, when only severe freezing weather will stop such persistent late-blooming kinds as Japanese Anemones, Pompon Chrysanthemums, Gaillardias, Eupatoriums, Tritomas, etc. Twenty-five years ago there were very few Hardy Perennial Borders, but to-day almost everyone who is fortunate enough to have even a small garden devotes at least a part of it to hardy plants. Many not thoroughly familiar with this class of plants have an idea that nothing but a large field-grown clump will give satisfactory returns the first season. This, as experience has taught us, is in most instances a mistake. A vigorous plant of proper size will, in nearly every case, give quicker and better returns than the best so-called "field^; The majority of the stock offered in this catalogue is IX)t grown. This does not mean that the plants have been altogether pot-grown, but that they have been field-grown and dug and potted up during the fall months, and such stock can be planted, even late in the spring, with practically no loss, which, in the case of clumps, is often quite serious. We have prepared a leaflet on THE MAKING AND CARE OF AN OLD-FASHI
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