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HALF-HARDY ANNUALS. 



their growth. With the exception of those we have named, they will even 

 succeed in the open borders, if the sowing be deferred till April ; but the same 

 degree of success must not be expected, unless in very favourable seasons ; by the 

 use of hand-lights, however, much may be done. More than one of the plants 

 named in the following list, is a perennial, but flowering the first season, they are 

 conveniently treated as half-hardy annuals. 



