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they are not so fine. A lady should have a space 

 of ground allotted to hiennial seedlings, so that a 

 fresh succession of plants may be ready to supply 

 the place of those which die away. The seeds 

 should be sown every spring in light, well-dug 

 earth ; the young plants should be kept very clean, 

 and some inches apart from each other ; and they 

 must be finally transplanted in autumn into the 

 beds where they are intended to remain. 



But there is a great uncertainty as to raising the 

 double flowers ; therefore it is better to make sure- 

 of those you approve by perpetuating them as long 

 as you can, by any root offsets they may throw off; 

 by pipings, cuttings, or by layers, as before noticed. 

 I subjoin a list of the principal and useful biennials. 



LIST OF HARDY BIENNIALS. 



Canterbury Bells 

 Blue-flowered 

 While 

 Purple 

 Pyramidal 



Carnation. All the varieties, 

 somewhat biennial pe 

 rennial. 

 Clary, Purple-topped 



Red-topped 

 Colutea, ^Ethiopian 

 French Honeysuckle 

 Red 

 White 

 Globe thistle 



Hollyhocks. Somewhat bien 

 nial-perennial ; all the 

 varieties; always by 

 seed. 



Lunaria, Moomvort or Hon 

 esty 

 Mallow (Tree) 



Poppy, Yellow-horned (Che- 



lidonium glaucum) 

 Rocket, Dame s violet 



Single white 



Double white 



Double purple 



Single purple 

 Rose Campion 



Red 



White 

 Scabius, double 



Dark purple-flowered 



Dark-red 



WLite 



Starry purple-flowered 



Starry white 



Jasged leaved starry 

 Stock Gilliflower 



Brompton 



Queen 



Twickenham 

 I Siccet-iciUiam 



