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Title: Making a Garden of Perennials

Author: W. C. Egan

Release Date: February 22, 2008 [EBook #24671]

Language: English

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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.

[Illustration: To be really satisfying the flower garden must have that
air of permanence that is given it by the perennials]

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