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till May; then, when the frost is totally gone, finally transplanted 

 into large pots, flower borders, &c. 



SOWING TENDER ANNUALS. 



A hot-bed may be made the beginning or any time this month, in 

 which to sow the seeds of tender annual flowers, such as the ice plant, 

 sensitive plant, browallias, &c. 



Make the bed and sow the seed as directed in last month. Or a 

 few plants may be raised in pots in any cucumber or melon hot-bed 

 now in cultivation, to a proper size for transplanting. (See April.) 



The plants raised from the above sowings will blow strong and 

 beautiful in May, June, July, &c. 



Kemember they are not to remain in the hot-bed where raised, but 

 are to be transplanted, some into pots, and some into the borders. 

 (See April and May.) 



SOWING HARDY ANNUAL FLOWERS. 



Any time this month that the ground is in good condition, you 

 may sow in the borders and other flower compartments, a variety of 

 hardy annuals, such as large and dwarf annual sunflowers, sweet pea 

 of every kind, larkspur, flos-adodis, persicaria, Tangier peas, Nigella, 

 Venus's looking-glass, Venus' s navelwort, double dwarf poppy, Lobel's 

 catchfly, dwarf-lychnis, snails, horns, hedgehogs, caterpillars, migno- 

 nette, china-aster, horse-shoes, belvidere, candy-tuft, honey-wort, 

 convolvulus-minor, cyanus, china-hollyhock lavatera, curled mallow, 

 winged pea, china pink, ten weeks' stock, and many other sorts, 

 which will flower better if sown early than if delayed to a late period; 

 though all of the above will succeed very well if sown in the begin- 

 ning of next month. 



These should be sown, each kind separate, in patches in the dif- 

 ferent borders and flower beds, &c., finally to remain where sown ; or 

 a few, when grown to a sufficient size, may be carefully transplanted 

 into such borders and places as you desire. For the method of sow- 

 ing them, see page 166. 



SOWING VARIOUS KINDS OP FIBROUS-ROOTED PERENNIAL AND 

 BIENNIAL PLANTS. 



Perennial and biennial flower-seeds, of most kinds, may be sown, 

 in the middle and southern States, towards the latter end of the 

 month; in the eastern States, the middle or latter end of April will 

 be preferable. ' 



It is to be observed that these kinds do not flower the same year 

 they are sown ; but all the sorts of them will flower strong, and in 

 good perfection the year after. 



As every one may not know the meaning of perennial and biennial 

 plants, the perennials are those which continue on the same roots 

 many years, producing new flower stems annually, such as everlast- 

 ing sunflower, scarlet lychnis, perennial asters, &c. The biennials are 



