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tber valuable from their pliability, so to speak, and the promptitude with 

 which they may be used. They are besides of easy culture, many requiring 

 nothing more than to have the seeds sown in the spot where they are to grow 

 and nourish. Annuals may be divided into three classes, the hardy, the 

 half-hardy, and the tender. The first class, as stated above, are sown at 

 once in the ground which they are to occupy ; the half-hardy succeed best 

 when aided at first by a slight hotbed, and then transplanted into the open 

 air ; the tender are kept in pots, and treated as green-house or stove plants, 

 to which departments they properly belong. It is scarcely necessary to re- 

 mark, that the hardy and half-hardy sorts may be grown either in patches 

 or in beds, and are subjected to all the rules which regulate the disposition 

 of common border flowers. 



Hardy Annuals. — Platystemon californicus ; Collomia coceinea ; Lepto- 

 siphon androsace and densiflorus ; Viscaria oculata and Binneyii ; Valeria- 

 nella congesta ; Eucharidium concinnum ; Godetia viseosa, Lindleyana, and 

 multiflora ; Eutoca multiflora, viscida; Campanula speculum, Lorii ; Ma- 

 lope trifida ; Hibiscus trionum, bifrons ; Nolana, various species ; Papaver 

 somniferum, numerous varieties ; P. Rhceas, varieties ; Gilia capitata, tri- 

 color, splendens ; Collinsia grandiflora ; bicolor ; Kaulfussia amelloides ; 

 Clarkia pulchella, elegans ; Oenothera rosea, rosea-alba, tenella, Rornan- 

 zovii ; Senecio elegans ; Mathiola annua (ten-week stock) ; Aster sinensis 

 (China aster) ; Lupinus, several species ; K" emophila insignis, atomaria, 

 cramboides, discoidalis ; Eschscholtzia californica, crocea ; Limnanthes 

 grandiflora ; Calandrina grandiflora ; Bartonia aurea ; Colinsia bicolor, 

 verna, heterophylla ; Clintonia pulchella, elegans ; Malope grandiflora ; 

 Leptosiphon lute us ; Platystemon californicum ; Collomia grandiflora ; 

 Coreopsis diversifolia ; Sanvitalia procumbens ; Phacelia congesta, tenace- 

 tifolia ; Caliopsis astrosanguinea ; Centaurea Americana ; Lasthena cali- 

 fornica ; Madia elegans ; Lupinus bicolor, elegans ; Helichrysum mecran- 

 thum ; Adonis autumnalis ; Iberis umbellata ; Alyssum, several species ; 

 Linaria, various species ; Delphinium Ajacis, consolida ; Lavatera trimes- 

 tris ; Sphenogyne speciosa ; Cladanthus arabicus ; Schizanthus Priestii ; 

 Eucaridium grandiflorum ; Papaver Marsillii ; Eutoca Wrangeliana, diva- 

 ricata, and Menziesii ; Silene armeria ; Rudbeckia amplexicaulis. 



Half-Hardy Annuals. — Callistema hortense ; Lopezia racemosa ; Rho- 

 danthe Manglesii ; Tagetes patula (French marigold), erecta (African 

 marigold), racemosa, &c. ; Zinnia elegans, pauciflora ; Xeranthemum an- 

 nuum, Helichrysum fulgidum, Chrysanthemum carinatum ; Schizanthus 

 pinnatus, porrigens, Grahami, Hookeri ; Salpiglossis atro-purpurea, picta ; 

 Petunia nyctaginiflora ; Mirabilis Jalapa ; Mesembryanthemum crystalli- 

 num, tricolor, white and red ; Brachycoma ibeirdifolia ; Clintonia elegan*, 



