Chapter VIII: 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.

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| Botanical | |
Common Name. | Name. | Remarks. | Height.
| | |
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Yellow | A-lys-sum | See List No. 1 for | 12
Alyssum.* | Sax-a-tile. | description. | inches.
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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.” |
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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. |
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Lily of the |Con-val-la- | Sweet-scented tiny white | 6
Valley. | ria. | bells. | inches.
| | |
| | Buy clumps and roots in |
| | Spring or Fall. |
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Alkanet or | An-chu-sa | Buy “Dropmore” variety. | 36
Bugloss. | I-tal-i-ca. | | inches.
| | Blue flowers. |
| | |
| | Buy the plants. |
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Lupines. | Lu-pi-nus. | Varieties in blue, white, | 24-28
| | pink. | inches.
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Tufted Pansies.* | Vi-o-la | Sow seed early. | 5-8
| Cor-nu-ti. | | inches.
| | Resemble pansies, not so |
| | large; but bloom all |
| | Summer. |
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Bleeding Hearts. | Di-el-y-tra. | See List No. 1 for |
| | description. |
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Hardy Candytuft.* | I-be-ris. | Buy “Iberis | 8-10
| | Sempervirens”: white. | inches.
| | |
| | Pretty for edging. |
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Forget-me-Not. | My-o-so-tis. | Buy “Myosotis Palustris | 8-10
| | Semperflorens.” Sky-blue | inches.
| | little flower. |
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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. |
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Rambler roses also bloom in early Summer.
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* 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,