300 *>F FLOWERS. SECT. XVIII. 



be given them freely, and by no means keep them 

 close. 



Again, both this class of annuals, and the former, 

 if not very early sown, do exceedingly well (or ra- 

 ther best) when on hot beds, under hand glasses, or 

 paper lights, particularly blossoms, they come so 

 stocky. 



What was said of tender annuals apply here, as 

 to air, water, and cover, but more freedom in the 

 present case is to be taken. If any are under mats, 

 the cover must be removed on days, except the wea- 

 ther be bad : or it may be only turned back, and 

 half off, to let the sun and light in from the south. 

 Never let either the seeds or plants of annuals really 

 want water when the weather is dry. See page 58. 

 See List 8 in the next Section, with the observations. 



The HARDY annuals have some little difference in 

 their temperature. Though all may be sown from 

 the middle to the end of March, as the best average 

 season, some may generally, with success, be sown 

 at Mid-February, as candy tufts, cornbottles, lark- 

 spurs, hawkweed, lavatera, lobtl's catchjly, lupines, 

 dwarf lychnis, nigella, sweet peas, poppies, mulberry- 

 blight, oriental mallow, persicaria, sun-flower, annual 

 snap dragon, Venus s looking-glass, and navel-zcort, 

 Virginian, or annual stock, and winged peas, with 

 some others. 



But nature, seems evidently to direct an autumn 

 sowing, for many sorts which are then shed (some 

 always, and others often) come up at spring, and 

 these make the finest blow, and produce the best seed 

 for propagation. A number, (all the above sorts) 

 therefore, might be scattered on the surface of the 

 ground at random^ not immediately as soon as ripe, 



