The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-07-15
GROWING %PERENNlAlS
BY BESSIE l.. PUTNAM.

For those who have not much time
10 devote TO the garden, there Is no
class OF towering plants more desira.
BILE than the hardy p%erennials and
~herbaceous plants like the peony.
These plants require but little atten.
ton.
One does not have 10 acquire a lib.
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 ANIMALS 10 those who are here
this season and somewhere else next
year.
Not that we would advise neg
Letting ANNALS wholly, however. | do
not want to be understood as meaning
that. but simply that a collection OF
hardy plants will BIO 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 II.
The impression seems to prevail
that ANIMALS require next to no care,
and are therefore particularly adapted
10 the use of the woman who has but
little time TO devote TO gardening.
The fact Is. that TO grow ANNALS
we'll you give them a good deal
Of attention. especially during the
early part OF the season. several times
the amount OF attention. indeed. that
will be required by q good.sized col
lection OF hardy plants.
Another argument In favor OF this
class IL that, once established. your
plants are good for an indefinite pc
Rod. Your garden does not have tc
DO made every season.
In spring the plants will need to
DO worked about, and freed from tn,
grass which will encroach upon theiI
territory, II allowed to do so; the sol
will require fertilizing. and once II
three or four years the old plants viii
be bettered by a division OF theii
roots.
This Is about all this class OF plants
will ask OF you. A great many car
be attended TO In a day, you will find
And the work Is much easier than thaI
Of making beds and pulling weeds.
One OF the best pcrenniais-perhaps
l would be justified in saying the best
is the Hollyhock. This plant comes
In a wide range OF colors-white. rose
crimson, maroon. and yellow. II is
profuse bloomer. and It does we'll IL
almost any soil.
To "a the strongest effects from
II. II should be planted In groups q
from si,' to n dozen plants. II con
trasting harmonious colors are plant
! ed together like white and pink, pinl
and yellow. r and yellow o.
white, the effect will be very fine. Blu
don't expect harmony II you put the
pink varieties alongside OF the Grim
son or maroon sorts.
We have mostly double Hollyhock'
nowadays, but the single kinds are
well worth cultivation, especially
where n very strong and stately effecI
Is desired.
II the old flower stalks are cut of
a Don rs the buds on them have
developed quite frequently, new stalks
will be sem 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 m ex
eellent plant when used In clumps
! We have no other flower OF tho some
rich dark shade Of blue. ! have seer
charming effects result from planting
pale yellow Hollyhocks close by it
| this color and the intense blue OF the