£7.2 V} M.OWLRi. bICT. XVIII, 



1. OF ANNUALS, 



Annual 'flowers are ufually divided into three claflea, 

 i. e. tender, Id's lender, and hardy. 



In the lilt, feci ion 19th, the tender annuals are 

 marked 1, the left tender 2, and trie unmarked are 

 hurdy. 



To this ///? of flowers might be added others, and 

 forr^e. poflihry that are pretty j but many of the annuals 

 introduced for variety's fake in large gardens, planta- 

 tions, &c. are weed-like, dull, and rambling, and per- 

 haps a few among thofe here mentioned may not be 

 fufheiently Qnuiriunicd (as, for inllance, the whites \ 

 where there are other colours oi the fame flower) to 

 give general fatisfaction; for a gay appearance is cer- 

 tainly the firft objecl in the cultivation of flowers to 

 adorn our, walks. There are rare plants, and others 

 admirable in their ftruclure and properties, which make 

 no mew ; but thefe are rather fubjects for the curious 

 botanijl, and he will defervedly think them worthy of a 

 place in his garden. 



Some flowers are both beautiful and fragrant; but 

 many have only one of tliefe properties to recommend 

 them. Some are cultivated chiefly for the beauty or 

 elegance oflheir leaf, as the tricolor, ice plant, pal ma 

 chri/li, and the curled mallow, and fome that bear 

 pretty and ,fweet flowers, are meanly furnifhed with 

 leaves, as the yellow Julian. Others oht; in a place in 

 the garden, neither for fragrance, or flower, or leaf; 

 but merely for the (ingularity of the fruit, or feed 

 veffel, as the egg plant, Jnails, caterpillars, hedge hegs, 

 bonis, and others. 



In the given lift, fome of the tender annuals may 



occahonally be confidered as lejs tender; as Amaran- 



thus, coxcomb, aid tricolor, baijams, double, as well as 



Jingle, and jlramonium; only they will not be fo forward 



aud fine Some of thofe alfo among the lefs tender may 



be 



