CHAPTER VIII. Early Summer Garden

EARLY SUMMER GARDEN

LIST No. 2

ELEVEN HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS WHICH BLOOM IN THE EARLY SUMMER

As pictured in the Mary Frances Garden Cut-Out No. 2.

------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- | Botanical | | Common Name. | Name. | Remarks. | Height. | | | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Yellow | A-lys-sum | See List No. 1 for | 12 Alyssum.* | Sax-a-tile. | description. | inches. ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Columbine. |A-qui-le-gi-a.| Airy, graceful plants, | 18-24 | | with spurred flowers, in | inches. | | red, blue, violet, white, | | | yellow. Buy the seed of | | | “Long Spurred Hybrids.” | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- German Iris | I-ris | Lavender, purple, yellow, | 24-30 (“Blue Flags”). | Ger-man-i-ca.| white. | inches. | | | | | “Corm” roots which | | | “winter over” and take | | | care of themselves, | | | “coming” up every Spring | | | in increased numbers. | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Lily of the |Con-val-la- | Sweet-scented tiny white | 6 Valley. | ria. | bells. | inches. | | | | | Buy clumps and roots in | | | Spring or Fall. | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Alkanet or | An-chu-sa | Buy “Dropmore” variety. | 36 Bugloss. | I-tal-i-ca. | | inches. | | Blue flowers. | | | | | | Buy the plants. | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Lupines. | Lu-pi-nus. | Varieties in blue, white, | 24-28 | | pink. | inches. ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Tufted Pansies.* | Vi-o-la | Sow seed early. | 5-8 | Cor-nu-ti. | | inches. | | Resemble pansies, not so | | | large; but bloom all | | | Summer. | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Bleeding Hearts. | Di-el-y-tra. | See List No. 1 for | | | description. | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Hardy Candytuft.* | I-be-ris. | Buy “Iberis | 8-10 | | Sempervirens”: white. | inches. | | | | | Pretty for edging. | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Forget-me-Not. | My-o-so-tis. | Buy “Myosotis Palustris | 8-10 | | Semperflorens.” Sky-blue | inches. | | little flower. | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Hardheads or | Cen-tau-re-a.| “Centaurea Montana” is | 2 Knap Weeds. | | known as the Perennial | feet. | | Cornflower. Bears large | Perennial | | violet-blue flowers from | Cornflower. | | July to September. | ------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- Rambler roses also bloom in early Summer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

* If garden space is small, select only the names marked with a star.

No. 3

MID-SUMMER HARDY GARDEN

For directions for making, see Chapter LXII]

MARY FRANCES GARDEN CUT-OUT MARY FRANCES GARDEN CUT-OUT No. 3 No. 3—Continued

For description of the flowers Marguerites, shown here see Chapter IX Coreopsis, Gaillardia, List of flowers shown in the Hardy Phlox, Mid-Summer Hardy Garden Hardy Pyrethrums, Tufted Pansies, Hardy Larkspur, Baby’s Breath, Pæony, Hardy Candytuft, Anchusa, Hollyhocks, Bellflower, Veronica, Madonna Lily, Japanese Bellflower, Poppies, Summer Violet. Foxglove, Sweet William, Hardy Garden Pinks,