. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . order about eight feet wide. is four feet apart 1916 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 55 growing one variety of sweet pea. Tlie supports made of wire netting nailed to anarrow wooden frame painted green serve from year to year. Perennials. We have had particular success with perennials and are con-fident that any hardy perennial will thrive. True, the thermometer goes low, butthe snows come early and there is little danger of a thaw. Slight coverings areneeded against the hot spring sun rather than against the frost. The iberis is the first to appe
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . order about eight feet wide. is four feet apart 1916 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 55 growing one variety of sweet pea. Tlie supports made of wire netting nailed to anarrow wooden frame painted green serve from year to year. Perennials. We have had particular success with perennials and are con-fident that any hardy perennial will thrive. True, the thermometer goes low, butthe snows come early and there is little danger of a thaw. Slight coverings areneeded against the hot spring sun rather than against the frost. The iberis is the first to appear in the border. Then when the lilacs are afragrant blending iridescence of color come the tulips, the daffodils and thenarcissus. The Iceland poppies and the pansies follow, and then, tlie long-spurredcolumbines, the pyrethrums and forget-me-nots, all such charming come along the coral-red sweet williams, frosted blue and pink canterburybells and Shasta daisies; then the oriental poppies, the peonies, the feathery A Haileybury Garden. Photo by Mrs. Lome McDougali. and in midsummer the delphiniums. We must stop to admire them. Howtall they grow, with their burnished blues and lavenders, their clear brilliant blues,their dark rich black blues, their grey and silvery blues, their many different typesof doubleness, their variety of centres, their long thick spikes, fairy godmotherswands. Were I boasting of gardens, I should certainly add that nowhere out ofKelways or Lemoines catalogues do such delphiniums grow. The giant holly-hocks succeed them, vieing in beauty with the phloxes so prodigal of bloom andcolor. Roses are, similarly, of the easiest cultivation. I saw a bunch of rosebudspicked in October looking like July. But I am convinced there is no perennial,with the exception of some of the lilies, which cannot be grown with equal, often,with more gratifying success, than in milder latitudes. Vegetables, The same methods used to grow flowers are appl
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