146 ANNTJALa 



AKNUALS. 



By the term Annuals is meant that large class of plants which 

 live but one season, coming up from seed, producing flowers and 

 ripening seed in the course of the summer, and then perishing. 

 We have endeavored to make a selection of those that will best 

 repay care and culture in our Canadian climate. It is useless ta 

 grow everything. Not even everything that is pretty is worth 

 the requisite labor, when compared with results just as easily 

 obtained by a judicious selection. 



The plants described under this head wiU flourish in any good 

 weU-tiQed garden soil. Some of them are the better of being 

 started in a frame and transplanted, like cabbage-plants, to their 

 permanent place in the garden. Any special treatment that may 

 be required, will be noticed under the several plants named. 

 They all require cultivation and care, to be kept free from weeds, 

 and to have the ground stirred occasionally, especially while the 

 plants are small. 



The Asteb. — This flowers late in the summer and through 

 the autumn. It flourishes best in a deep, rich soil In our 

 climate it is best to sow the seed in a cold frame, and get the 

 plants started a little earlier than can be done in the open 

 ground. It is possible to start them too early, by which means 

 they are brought into flower while the sun is too powerful, and 

 the flowers in consequence are scorched by the heat. When the 

 plants are well grown, they should be transplanted into beds, 

 setting the tall-growing kinds about a foot apart each way, and 

 the dwarf varieties about half that distance. 



Truffaut's Peonia-floioered Perfection is a very large-flowered 

 variety, having long reflexed petals, and in various colors. The 

 flower stalks grow about two feet high. 



New Ruse. — Grows to about the same height, the flowers are 

 very double, of several colors, and the petals finely imbricated. 



New Peonia-flowered Globe. — Is a very early flowering; 



