OBSERVATIONS ON ANNUALS 



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So rm abed of this plant alone, but it looks very well amongst 

 other plants. 



Delphinium sinense. This though but a new biennial, is well 

 worth cultivation, its flowers are deep and a most brilliant blue, 

 it has little foliage, but two or three plants of it placed together 

 form a nice clump, and contrast well m a bed with other flowers. 

 Its height is about two feet, it will bloom the first and second 

 years well, but though the plant will continue longer, the flowers 

 are apt to diminish both in number and depth of hue. It grows 

 from seed readily, and will bear transplanting well. 



So many excellent directions were given in the first volume of 

 .the Floricultural Cabinet, that little need be added here upon tke 

 sowing and management of annuals; a succession maybe obtain- 

 ed by sowing a few of each kind in a hot bed early in March 

 pricking them into pots, as they obtain sufficient size, and then 

 turning out the ball of soil entire into the borders early in May; 

 sowing once in the open borders in the beginning or middle of 

 April, as situation or season may warrant, and then again the last 

 week in May, or beginning of June. 



Many of the half hardy perennials lately introduced, produce 

 seed so freely, as to be treated as annuals, suffered to perish at 

 the end of the season ; amongst these the beautiful Petunia vio- 

 lacea, deserves the first place. A bed of this plant forms a most 

 elegant ornament to a garden, self-sown plants spring up, when it 

 has bloomed the previous summer, which, when transplanted to 

 different parts of the garden, forms strong bushy plants, covered 

 with flowers during the autumn. The Miotiana nyctaginiflora 

 will also spring up occasionally in the borders, and the flowers 

 of these seedlings, are much finer than from cuttings of the same 

 season. 



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ARTICLE IV. 

 A REPLY TO OBSERVATIONS "ON RAISING TULIPS FROM SEED," 



BY JOHN SLATER, LOWE n HflOUG HI 6 N, NEAtl MANCHESTER. 



Some observations have been addressed to me upon the article 

 on raising Tulips from seed inserted in your April Number of 

 the Cabinet, I very reluctantly reply to them, neither should I 



