Excerpt from The Ladie's Flower-Garden: Perennials Tun plants I propose to treat of in the present work are principally those which remain several years in the ground without requiring to be taken up and replanted; flowering every summer, and generally dying down to the ground in winter, but when they do so, springing up again from the root in spring. These plants are seldom raised from seed, and when they are, they do not flower till the second or third year; but they are generally propagated by dividing the roots either in autumn, when the plants have done flowering and are in a state of repose, or in spring, just before the young shoots begin to grow. The latter is the most general period. 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.