OBSERVATIONS 



FOR 



APRIL. 



In this month we have frequently very charming 

 days, doubly so after the severe season which has 

 passed. Now there is peculiar pleasure in dressing 

 up flower-knots, borders, and shrubberies, previously 

 to their exhibition of beauties. 



ANNUALS. 



Some of those with the hard botanical names 

 {see list in March.) are new comers, and though 

 probably as hardy as many of our old Annuals, it 

 will be safer to sow a little of each sort in moderate 

 hot-beds, and to treat them in every respect as the 

 French and African Marygolds. 



You may now safely sow those which do not 

 require hot-beds, such as Sweet Pea, Lupines, Con- 

 volvulus Minor, Nasturtiums, Ten Week and Rus- 

 sian Stocks, Poppies, Larkspur, &c. &c. (see last 

 month's Calendar,) and also hardy Perennials, viz. 

 Sweet William, Columbine, Hollyhocks, Pinks, Car- 

 nations, Auriculas, Polyanthuses, Cowslips, Peren- 

 nial Larkspur, Escholtzia californica, CEnotheras, 

 Penstemon, Commelina, Marvel of Peru, &c. 



