36 FLOWER-GARDENING. 



CLIMBING PLANTS. 



The reader is here reminded that our Catalogue of Annual 

 Flower Seeds contains a few varieties of perennials, which 

 were there introduced because of their aptness to blossom the 

 first season of the seed being sown; these, with those 

 marked f in the last Catalogue, may be sown and treated in 

 the manner recommended for tender annuals. Those intend- 

 ed to be cultivated as green-house plants should be taken up 

 before the approach of cold weather, transplanted into flower- 

 pots, and sheltered either in a garden-frame, green-house, or 

 light room. Those plants with tuberous roots, such as 

 Dahlias, Marvel of Peru, and also some others of the Bean 

 and Pea tribe, may be cut down late in the autumn, and the 

 roots taken up and preserved in the same manner as those of 

 other tuberous and bulbous-rooted plants, of which I shall 

 treat hereafter. 



Hardy biennial and perennial flower seeds may be sown in 

 the month of April, in shallow drills. If this business be per- 

 formed in the manner recommended for annuals, they can be 

 easily distinguished from each other ; and as these plants do 

 not flower the first year, they may be thinned out, or removed 

 from the seed-beds as soon as they are well rooted, and planted 

 either in different parts of the flower-beds or in a nursery-bed. 

 If the latter plan be adopted, they should be planted in rows 

 a foot or more apart, and kept free from weeds by means of a 

 small hoe, which will greatly promote their growth, and pre- 

 pare them for transplanting into the regular and permanent 

 blossoming-beds, either in the autumn or early in the ensuing 

 spring. 



It may be here observed that biennials seldom survive the 



second winter to flower in perfection, unless they are renewed 



by cuttings of top shoots, young flower stalks, or casual off- 



. sets, layers, etc. It will be unnecessary to* take this trouble, 



unless with some extraordinary double-flowering plants. Some 



