CHAPTER VII. 



ANNUAL AND BIENNIAL PLANTS. 



WHATEVER we may do with perennials, shrubs, or hardy bulbs, the 

 plants in this class must ever be of great value to the flower gardener; 

 and among the most pleasant memories of flower garden things are often 

 those of annual or biennial plants such as tall and splendid Stocks in a 

 farmhouse garden on a chalky soil, seen on a bright day in early spring ; 

 Wallflowers in London market gardens and in cottage gardens, when 

 not cut down by cruel winters ; Snapdragons on old garden walls, and 

 bright Marigolds everywhere; Hollyhock lines, Sweet Pea hedges, and 

 Mignonette carpets ; Evening Primrose, Poppies, Sweet Scabious, and 

 Sweet Williams. However rich a garden may be in hardy flowers or 

 bedding plants, it is wise in our climate to depend much on annual 

 flowers. 



Like most other plants, they enjoy fresh ground, and where they 

 are grown in borders by themselves it is easy to enrich the ground, 

 and make it fitted for them, easier than when grown among 

 perennials, Roses, and the like. With this precaution the culture 

 is very simple. 



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