56 HARDY BIENNIALS. 



Common upright tall yel 

 low 



Small-flowered 

 WM-flower 



Yellow-flowered 



Bloody 



White 



Double of each 

 Night Stock 

 Petunia 



White 



Lilac 



Red 



Scarlet 



Purple 



Red, white-bordered 



Party-colored 



Variegated 



Painted Lady 



Double of each 



Mule, or Mongrel Sweet- 

 william, or Mule Pink 

 Tree mallow (Lavertera ar- 

 borea) 



Tree Primrose 



When you make your seedling-bed or nursery, 

 cover it over with straw, or fern, or matting, during 

 frost ; and to prevent the birds pecking up the 

 seeds, it is requisite to protect the bed by strewing 

 light boughs of thorn bushes over it, or fixing a net 

 upon sticks as a covering, till the plants appear. If 

 cats, dogs, or poultry intrude into the flower-garden, 

 it is in vain to hope for enjoyment. 



Sow your biennial seeds in March, April, or 

 May. I recommend May, because the young plants 

 in that month germ and vegetate quickly, surely, 

 and without requiring defences from the frost. 

 Plant them out in October, with a ball of earth to 

 each root, where they are to remain. 



The Stock Gilliflowers in particular, having long, 

 naked roots, must be planted out very young, other 

 wise they do not succeed well. 



Honesty is a very early, rich-flowering biennial, 

 which requires no care; they shed their seed, rise, 

 and flower, without any assistance, in profusion. 

 The only trouble is to weed it out of the beds, that 

 they may not stand in the way of other flowers. 



Canterbury Bells are handsome flowers, and will 

 bloom a long time if you cut off the bells as they 

 decay. 



