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.

------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------- | 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.

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,