. DREER'S SELECT Hardy Perennial Plants. THIS class of plants, familiarly known as Old = fashioned Hardy Garden Flowers, has come into public favor so rapidly as to astonish even the most sanguine en- thusiast of these gems of the garden. Their popularity 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, almost every day, brings forth something fresh and new. Beginning in April, early- ;-,-ââ flowering varieties open their flowers often before â '-, snow
. DREER'S SELECT Hardy Perennial Plants. THIS class of plants, familiarly known as Old = fashioned Hardy Garden Flowers, has come into public favor so rapidly as to astonish even the most sanguine en- thusiast of these gems of the garden. Their popularity 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, almost every day, brings forth something fresh and new. Beginning in April, early- ;-,-ââ flowering varieties open their flowers often before â '-, snow has entirely disappeared, continuing with constantly changing variety through the sum- mer until late in the fall, when severe freezing weather only will stop such persistent late bloomers as the Japanese Windflowers, fcf'V-. '- Pompone Chrysanthemums, Stokesias, etc. !'â -â â . Cultivation is of the simplest, beginning ' ' .â ' â > with any good garden soil for a foundation, which may be enriched with any good fertilizer, such as well decomposed cow or ^^^^H sheep manure or bone meal, deeply dug, well pulverized, in which the plants should ,'-'â 'â & be set as early in the season as possible, so ns co enable them to become well rooted and es- . .. ''-â cablished before hot, dry weather sets in, keeping - s tne ground well stirred, and where it is not convenient * to water the beds during hot, dry weather a mulch of loo>e material, which will keep the soil from baking, will be found very beneficial. Short grass, the Takings of the lawn after cutting, will be as good for this purpise as anything. A covering of manure should be applied in the fall; this may be forked into the soil early in spring, and, beyond this, little care need be given, the occasional staking of a plant, the cutting off of decaying flowers, which will prolong the flowering season of many species, and the dividing and replanting occasionally of such varieties that have become too large,
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