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MAKING A GARDEN OF PERENNIALS

THE HOUSE & GARDEN "MAKING" BOOKS

It is the intention of the publishers to make this series of little volumes, of which Making a Garden of Perennials is one, a complete library of authoritative and well illustrated handbooks dealing with the activities of the home-maker and amateur gardener. Text, pictures and diagrams will, in each respective book, aim to make perfectly clear the possibility of having, and the means of having, some of the more important features of a modern country or suburban home. Among the titles already issued or planned for early publication are the following: Making a Rose Garden; Making a Lawn; Making a Tennis Court; Making a Fireplace; Making Paths and Driveways; Making a Rock Garden; Making a Garden with Hotbed and Coldframe; Making Built-in Bookcases, Shelves and Seats; Making a Garden to Bloom This Year; Making a Water Garden; Making a Poultry House; Making the Grounds Attractive with Shrubbery; Making a Naturalized Bulb Garden; with others to be announced later.

Making a Garden of Perennials

By W. C. EGAN

NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1912

Copyright, 1912, by McBRIDE, NAST & CO.

Published June, 1912

CONTENTS

Page

INTRODUCTION 1

PREPARING THE BEDS 7

WINTER MULCHING 20

SUMMER MULCHING 23

PLANT COMBINATIONS 30

WEEDING 34

LISTS OF DEPENDABLE PERENNIALS:

OF GENERAL EXCELLENCE 36

FOR SHADY POSITIONS 49

FOR DRY SOILS 50

FOR WET SOILS 51

ALPINES, OR ROCK PLANTS 51

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

A GARDEN OF PERENNIALS Frontispiece

Facing Page

A COLONY OF GERMAN IRIS 4

SWEET ROCKET AGAINST A FOLIAGE BACKGROUND 12