ANNUAL FLOWER SEEDS, US 



identify each particular kind, and thus become familiarly 

 acquainted with them.* In order that this may be rendered 

 plain to my readers, I adopt the following plan of entry of 

 six kinds sown in pots, and six in the open ground : 



April 20, sowed flower seeds in pots. 



Pot marked A, or 1, Ainaranthus tricolor. 



B, or 2 Balsamines 1 



C, or 3, Cockscomb. 



D, or 4, Egg pi int. 



E, or 5, Ice plant. 



F, or 6, Mignonette. 



These pots may be either marked with letters, or figures 

 on the outside, to answer with the book, or notches may be 

 cut in wood, or other labels affixed to the pots, and entered 

 accordingly. 

 April 30, sowed flower seeds in drills, as under 



No; 1, Bladder Ketmia 



2, Coreopsis Tinctoria. 



3, Yellow eternal flower. 



4, Globe amarauthus. 



5, Princes' feather. 



6, Larkspur, branching. 



If these numbers be continued to 100, or even 1000, there 

 can be no mistake, provided the rows are all marked accord- 



* Lest the reader should contend that the author is hereby shifting 

 his own duty and responsibility on the cultivator, it may be necessary to 

 observe that a definition of all the peculiar qualities, forms, attitudes 

 and habits of growth, of the numerous species and varieties of plants, 

 embraced in an extensive catalogue, with minute directions for the 

 most appropriate culture of each, would alone occupy more space 

 than is allotted for this treatise, and that to expatiate on all the various 

 features of the floral kingdom, i*.a task which no author has ever 

 attempted; nor can an ' librar v be found containing such a desideratum.' 

 The cultivator of a small garden may, however, by means of a memo- 

 randum book, describe the peculiarities of such plants os come under 

 his special care, as upright, procumbent, trailing, climbing, bushy, 

 slender stalked, herbaceous, shrubby, &c., and thus learn how to 

 rultivate and arrange the same, or similar plants, advantageously in 

 succeeding years: and it must be admitted that a few flowers selected, 

 so as to harmonize in their colours and habits of growth, cultivated 

 with precision, as respects soil and situation congenial to them, and 

 trained and pruned into regular and compact shapes, will yield more 

 pleasure and amusement,than three times the number taken promiscuous- 

 ly and cultivated under one uniform treatment, as is the general, though 

 not most judicious practice. 



