The Pulaskian., 1915-06-18
GROWING TERMINALS
By BESSIE L. PUTNAM.

For those who have not much time to devote to the garden, there is no class of Towering plants more desira- ble than the hardy perennials and herbaceous plants like the peony. These plants require but little atten- tion.
 One does not have to acquire a 1ib- eral horticultural education in order to know how to take care of them. Most of us will do well to consider the merits of this class of plants, leav- ing the annuals to those who are here this season and somewhere else next year.
 Not that we would advise neg lecting annuals wholly, however, 1 do not want to be understood as meaning that, but simply that a collection of hardy plants will be found so much more satisfactory, all things consid- cred, under the conditions of which have spoken, that their cultivation is to be urged in preference to that of the other class mentioned, which is not satisfactory unless a good deal of time and labor is expended on it.
 The impression seems to prevail that annuals require next to no care, and are therefore particularly adapted to the use of the woman who has but little time to devote to gardening.
 The fact is, that to grow annuals well you must give them good deal of attention, especially during the early part of the season, several times the amount of attention, indeed, that will be required by good-sized col lection of hardy plants.
 Another argument in favor of this class is that, once established, your plants are good for an indefinite pe- riod. Your garden does not have to be made every season.
 In spring the plants will need to be worked about, and freed from the grass which will encroach upon their territory, if allowed to do so; the soil will require fertilizing, and once in three or four years the old plants will be bettered by a division of their roots.
 This is about all this class of plants will ask of you. A great many can be attended to in a day, you will find. And the work is much easier than that of making beds and pulling weeds.
 One of the best perennials-perhaps I would be justified in saying the best -is the Hollyhock. This plant comes in wide range of colors-white, rose, crimson, maroon, and yellow. It is a profuse bloomer, and it does well in almost any soil.
 To secure the strongest effects from it, it should be planted in groups of from six to dozen plants. If con- trasting harmonious colors are plant ed together like white and pink, pink and yellow, maroon and yellow or white, the effect will be very fine. But don't expect harmony if you put the pink varieties alongside of the crim- son or maroon sorts.
 We have mostly double Hollyhocks nowadays, but the single kinds are we'll worth cultivation, especially where very strong and stately effect is desired.
 If the old flower stalks are cut off as soon as the buds on them have developed quite frequently, new stalks will be sent up late in the season.
 In this way one may have flowers from the Hollyhock until the coming of cold weather.
 A package of seed sown in May, June or July, will give one dozen of plants from which flowers can be ex- pected the next season.
 Delphinum, or Larkspur, is an ex- cellent plant when used in clumps. We have no other flower of the some rich dark shade of blue. have seen charming effects result from planting pale-yellow Hollyhocks close by it- this color and the intense blue of the