Dreers Old Fashioned Hardy Plants Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Dreer's Old-Fashioned Hardy Plants, 1914 This change has, in a measure, been created by the many books on Gardening published in recent years, almost every one of which included a chapter or more on the hardy border, while some of them were devoted exclusively to hardy plants. The Horticultural Press has also been a great factor in stimulating interest in hardy plants. Unfortunately, while nearly all of the books and magazine articles give glowing descriptions of the delights of the Hardy Border and describe in detail many of the plants, none, as far as we know, give any drawings or plans showing how such a border should be made, or showing the proper location for the various plants in same. The usual excuse for this omission was that each garden demanded special treatment, and that no plan or set of plans could be used for any great number of plates, and while this is in some cases true, we feel sure that the several plans which we have had prepared by a practical Landscape Artist, and which embody a great many of our own ideas, and which are reproduced on pages 8 and 9 of this book, will enable many amateurs to undertake the making of a hardy border who have until now been deterred from doing so by not knowing how to go about it. The plants which we have selected to fill the various sections in the borders illustrated are the kinds that always do well and are most likely to give satisfactory results. Some planters may prefer to make their own selection, and we like to encourage this, as it gives to every border a touch of individuality, and to make this easy we give on pages 2 to 7 and 11 to 17 a complete alphabetical list of the hardy plants we offer this season, together with their color, average height of growth, time of flowering. And whether suited for a sunny or shady location. This list should make it comparatively easy, even for a novice, to make a selection to fill a bed of any size or shape without making a serious blunder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.