. The beginner's garden book; a textbook for the upper grammar grades. Gardening. THE KINDS OF PLANTS 111 are in this class. They are called perennial plants. Some few plants live but two years, and are called biennial plants. Perennial plants from the tropical regions, as they will be killed by frost in the north, must here be grown as annuals, if 'they are to be grown at all. The other classification depends upon the stems of the perennial plants. If they are soft and juicy, so that they are killed by the win- ter cold and die to the ground, even though the roots live on, then the plants are
. The beginner's garden book; a textbook for the upper grammar grades. Gardening. THE KINDS OF PLANTS 111 are in this class. They are called perennial plants. Some few plants live but two years, and are called biennial plants. Perennial plants from the tropical regions, as they will be killed by frost in the north, must here be grown as annuals, if 'they are to be grown at all. The other classification depends upon the stems of the perennial plants. If they are soft and juicy, so that they are killed by the win- ter cold and die to the ground, even though the roots live on, then the plants are called her- baceous. Such are the larkspur and rhubarb. If the stems are hard, and live through the winter, they are called woody. Such are all shrubs and trees. These classes of plants are easily understood, though their names may be hard to memorize at first. But every new subject has its special words which must be learned. And if we are to understand about a plant, we need to know whether it is hardy or tender, annual or perennial, herbaceous or woody. As now we face the beginning of the garden season, we see first a period in which it will pay to start plants in the house, during which they will grow to such a size that they can finally be set outdoors, and will then yield quickly. During this period we are likely to start the hardy plants first, because they can first be set outdoors. We start the tender plants later, because they must later be set Fig. 61. — Lettuce, a hardy annual vege- table, will withstand Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original French, Allen, 1870-1946. New York, The Macmillan Co.
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