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PRACTICE OF GARDENING. 



Part III. 



6505. Propagation and culture of biennial border-flowers. They are all raised from 

 seed, but some of the finest double varieties are continued by cuttings. The seed 

 of such sorts as ripen by August may be sown immediately after it is gathered ; but the 

 seed of those sorts which ripen later should be preserved till the following spring, and 

 sown in May or the beginning of June. Sow thinly in beds in the reserve-garden, 

 transplant into other beds when the plants are a few inches high, and in September or 

 October remove the plants to their final destination. If this be, as it most generally 

 will in the mingled flower-border, to provide a succession of the same sorts, then it can 

 only be done in the case of those sorts which are done flowering by September or the 

 first of October, and the others must be removed early in March with balls. Great 

 care is requisite in removing some sorts which have large tap-roots, as Oenothera, holly- 

 hock, lavatera, &c, for if materially checked they will not flower strongly. The best 

 mode is to nurse these sorts in large pots, and transplant them in October or February, 

 with their balls entire. The sorts continued by cuttings are chiefly fine double varieties 

 of wallflowers, stocks, rose-campions, &c. The cuttings may be taken from the flower- 

 stalks, or the root-shoots, early in summer, put under hand-glasses, and otherwise 

 treated as cuttings of perennials. If the cuttings of some sorts, as dahlia, chrysanthe- 

 mum, lobelia, &c. are taken off early in the season, they will flower in the autumn. 

 The plants onee placed where they are to remain, their general culture and manage- 

 ment is the same as for the perennial border-flowers. (6187.) 



Subsect. 4. Species and Varieties of Hardy Annual Border-Flowers. 

 6506. HARDY ANNUAL BORDER- FLOWERS. —JUNE. 



Height from Oto%ofafi. 



RED. 



Cheiranthus maritimus 



WHITE. 



Biscutella coronopifolia 

 Cheiranthus mari. fl. alb 

 Lychnis quadriedentata 



YELLOW. 

 BLUE. 



PURPLE. 



From %ofa foot iolh foot. 



RED. 



Silene pendula, Jan. 

 — rubella 



WHITE. 



Cucubalus italicus 

 Silene quinquevulnera 



YELLOW. 



Centaurea suaveolens 



BLUE, 

 (fleonia lusitanica 

 Convolvulus siculus 



PURPLE. 



Crepis rubra 



From Hfoot to Z^feet. 



RED. 



YELLOW 

 BLUE. 



PURPLE. 



JULY. 



From 2i fee^to 3-i feet. 



RED. 

 Knautia orientalis 



eentaurea erupina 

 onvolvulus sibiricus 

 WHITE. 



YELLOW. 



BLUE. 



PURPLE. 



From 5^ feet upwards. 



YELLOW. 

 BLUE. 



PURPLE. 



RED. 



Dianthus prolifer, p. 

 Lychnis la^ta ' 

 Silene acteon 



WHITE. 



Bellium bellidioides 



RED. RED. 



Chelidonium comicula. Adonis ™M«i 



Geranium gruinum 



Silene conoida rub. 



Agrostemma coelirosa 



Antirrhinum viscosum Saponana vaccana 



Delphinium aja.peach, t 



Hedvsarum crista-galli 



Trifolium incamatum 



Silene jEgyptiaca 



YELLOW. 

 Arithericumannuum, p 

 Arctotis tristis, t. 



anthemoides, t. 



RED. RED. 



Echium orientalis Amaranthus caudatus 



Blitum capitatum Delphinium aja. peach t. M alva mosehata 



Silene armeria rub. | Malva mauritiana, p. I Amaranthus hypocondr, 



Papaver rhoeas flo. plenoi 



— lividus 



WHITE. 



Anthemis maritima 

 Anthyllis cornicina 



— tetraphylla 

 Antirrhinum chalepe. t. 



— macrocarpon, t. 

 Artemisia pectinata 

 Briza maxima 

 Calendula hybrida, t. 

 Campanula specul.fl.alb. 

 Crucianella angustifolia 

 Cucubalus viscosus 

 Cynoglossum linifolium 



_ lusitanicum 

 Delphinium ajacis, white 

 Silene conoidea alb. 



YELLOW. 



Alyssum campestre, p. I 

 Anthemis valentina | 

 Antirrhinum bipunctat. 



— orontium 



— speciosa flavum 



— versicolor, p. 

 Arctotis anthemoides^ 

 Astragalus trimestris 

 Catananche lutea, t. 

 Chlora perfoliata 

 Coronilla securidaca 

 Hippocrepis unisiliquosa 

 Reseda odorata_ 



WHITE. 



Crucianella latifolia 

 Silene armeria flo. alb. 

 — behen : 



Malva americana 

 Lathyrus odorat.fl.incar 



WHITE. WHITE. 



Agrostemma nicsensis] | Lathyrus articulatus 

 Delphinium ajacis, white 

 Echium violac. flo. alb. 

 Lupinus albus 



— angustifolius 



— varius . 



YELLOW. 



Calendula arvensis 

 Fumaria capnoides 

 Impatiens noli tang, p 

 Lupinus luteus 



— — flo. pallido 

 Scorpiurus muricata 



— subvillosa 



— vermiculata 

 Calendula stellata 

 Trifolium yolonicum 



— odoratus, fl. alb. 



— — 11. varie 

 Malva crispa 



— limensis 



YELLOW. YELLOW. 



Crepis barb. flo. pallida. Amaranthus flavus 

 Calendulaofficin.fl.pl. I L — hybndus 

 Lathyrus annuus 

 Momordica elaterium 



