The Century illustrated monthly magazine . I. The Garden of Hardy Flowers. HE book, A Few Flowers Worthy of General Culture, is written to showthe many advantages of gardening with hardy flowers as compared withbedding plants. We have been very careful not to make a single exagger-ated statement, and every illustration is an actual garden picture. And it is worthyof note that it is always the garden of hardy flowers, and never the one of beddingplants, that furnishes subjects for the artists pencil and brush. Hardy plants haveall artistic advantages, and all practical ones as well. Their first


The Century illustrated monthly magazine . I. The Garden of Hardy Flowers. HE book, A Few Flowers Worthy of General Culture, is written to showthe many advantages of gardening with hardy flowers as compared withbedding plants. We have been very careful not to make a single exagger-ated statement, and every illustration is an actual garden picture. And it is worthyof note that it is always the garden of hardy flowers, and never the one of beddingplants, that furnishes subjects for the artists pencil and brush. Hardy plants haveall artistic advantages, and all practical ones as well. Their first cost being theironly cost and their greatly increasing in size and beauty year after year make an invest-ment in them yield an annual dividend of loveliness not to be computed in anyordinary i\^^^^ The seventh edition of our book, A Few Flowers Worthy of General Culture, \1[/ is now ready, and will be mailed, post-paid, on receipt of twenty-five cents, which is\ allowed on the first order for plants. This book is the most beautiful an


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