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wards placed in some part of ilie stove wlicrc 

 thev must constantly remain. 'Iliey siiould 

 then be carefully managed, and liavc plenty 

 of air admitted, as wiilioul this they are apt to 

 become >ickly. When tlic plants become large 

 they must be shiftetl into pots of greater sizes ; 

 but care should be taken not to overpot them, 

 beinjj still kept in the bark heat. The heat 

 should be kept up to that of the Anana, as 

 marked on botanical thermometers. And the tan 

 in the beds sliould be frcoucntly turned over 

 and refreshed. They should alsohave water fre- 

 quently in summer in small quantities ; but in 

 winter more sparingly, a little once a week in 

 mild weather, and once in a fortnight or more 

 when frosty, may be sufficient. 



The hardy sort casts its leaves in winter; but 

 those of tha tender kinds retain them, their 

 chief beauty m this climate depending upon 

 their green foliage, as they but seldom flower or 

 produce fruit. The fruit in the hardy sort is 

 difl'erent from that in the tender kinds, two or 

 three growing together at the foot-stalks of the 

 leaves. 



The hardy sort is highly ornamental in the 

 pleasure-ground, and the tender kinds in the 

 stove. 



ANNUAL PLANTS. Such plants as are of 

 one year's growth and duration, continuing for 

 the summer season, or only a few months. In 

 general, however, all such plants as rise from 

 seed sown in the spring, arrive at maturity in 

 the summer or autumn following, producing 

 flowers and ripe seed, and which afterwards 

 perish in their tops, stems, and roots, are con- 

 sidered as aimuals. The la«t cflect takes place in 

 most sorts in the antunm and winter following; 

 though some hardy k'nuU, when late sown, are 

 capable of standing over the winter until the 

 ensuing spring, especially those of the esculent 

 sorts ; out verv few of the flowering kinds re- 

 main longer than October or November, unless 

 protected" bv a green-house, garden-frame, or 

 some covering of that nature. 



PLants of this tribe are numerous, as most of 

 those of the hcrbaceons kind, consisting of un- 

 cultivated plants, weeds, &c., and also a num- 

 ber of cultivated garden and field plants, both 

 of the esculent and flowery ornamental sorts be- 

 long to ii. The latter kind are often simply 

 termed annuals. They are likewise very 

 extensive, and of various kinds, some of 

 which, from the peculiarity of their na- 

 ture, and others from their producing beauti- 

 ful flowers, are cultivated for the pmpose 

 of ornament in flower-gardens and pleasure- 

 grounds. 



The annual flowering plants Ae distinguished 



by gardeners into hardij and tender sorts : the 

 former arc such as can be raised from seeds sown 

 on beds, borders, or other places, in the natural 

 or open ground ; the latter, such as constantly 

 reipiire to he ^ow n on, and have in some tlc- 

 grec thi' aid of, hot-beds, to promote their per- 

 fect growth. 



Hardy yfniiiiuls. — These constitute a nu- 

 merous assortment of flowering plants, lit for 

 being cultivated in the natural ground. 'I'lic 

 following are some of the principal of them : 

 yldoiiii, or Adonis Flower. — Alkckeni^i, white- 

 flowered, blue, yellow -berried, red-Wrried. — 

 Amdranthia, Prince's Feather, Love-lies-bleed- 

 ing, purple. — ylli/ssoii, white, sweet-scented. — 

 Aiii€tliy<ttfa, blue. — Balm, Maldivian. — Ilrliv- 

 dvre, or Summer Cvpress. — CaUndula, or Caps 

 Marigold. — Cundij Tuft, w hilc-llowered, purple, 

 large, white, crimson. — Catch-Jiij, Lobel's red- 

 flowered, white, purple. — CottrpUlur. — Clary, 

 red-topped, \vhite-to)iped. — Coiivolrulm, three- 

 coloured minor, minor blue and white, minor 

 blue, major blue, great white, great striped 

 blue, griat purple, red. — Cyarits, or Blue- 

 bottle, blue-flowered, purple, white, red, 

 striped blue and white. — CiicnniLer, spurting. — 

 Devil in a Bush, blue-flowered, white, nettle- 

 leaved. — Fi/matory, vcllovv. — Hawk-weed, yel- 

 low, red. — Htdsie-Hog Trefoil, snail-shaped, 

 pricklv, turbinafed, globular, orbicular, long 

 crooked-twisted. — lloney-iiort, great, less. — 

 Holly-hock, Chinese variegated, doul)le-flow- 

 ered. — Jacoicea, or Kag-wort, purpk-flowered, 

 white. — Indian Corn, tail-grow inv: dwarf. — Kid- 

 ney-leans, scarlet runner, dwarf scarlet,, large 

 white runner. — A"e//«/Vj, bladder. — Larksfiir, up- 

 risht blue, upright purple, upright white, up- 

 right rose-coloured, white rocket, rose rocket, 

 dwarf rose rocket, dwarf white rocket, dwarf 

 blue rocket, dw arf red rocket, branching, blue 

 branchinff, white branching, double and single- 

 flowx'red of all the ditTerent sorts. — iMialera,. 

 Cretan red-flowcrcd, white, purple. — Lii/ine, 

 dwarf yellow, large yellow, white, great hairy 

 blue, great hair)' rose-coloured, narrow-leaved 

 blue. — Lychnii, dw arf. — Marigold, double 

 orance-coiourcd, double yellow , double lenion- 

 coloiTred, gold-coloured, parti-coloured, yellow, 

 ranunculus^flowercd, cluldine, or pioliferous. 

 Cape Marigold. — .l/aZ/o;/-, cuned -leaved, orien- 

 tal. — 3/ /i,'/;o//c//c, odoriferous or swett-scenj'^d. 

 — Xastiirtimn ni.ijor, or large-growing, minor 

 or dwarf. — Xolana, Peruvian dwarf blue. — A"/- 

 gilla, or Devil in a Bush. — Punsey, or Heart's • 

 Ease, common, small, variegated, large Dutch 

 variegated, large purple, yellow, purjile and yel- 

 low, purple, yellow, and white. — Peas, swcct- 

 scenled, purple, while, painted ladv, scarlet, 



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