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tiardy annuals, such as large and dwarf annual sunflowers, sweet 

 pea of every kind, larkspur, flos-adonis, persicaria, Tangier peas, 

 Nigilla, Venus's looking-glass, Venus's navelwort, double dwarf 

 poppy, Lobel's catchfly, dwarf-lychnis, snails, horns, hedgehogs, 

 caterpillars, mignonette, china-aster, horse-shoes, belvidere, candy- 

 tuft, honey-wort, convolvulus-minor, cyanus, china-hollyhock, lava- 

 tera, curled mallow, winged pea, china pink, ten weeks stock, and 

 many other sorts, ( see list of annuals) which will flower better if 

 sown early, than if delayed to a late period ; though every of the 

 above will succeed very well if sown in the beginning of next month. 

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

 ferent borders and flower-beds, 8cc. finally to remain where sown ; 

 or, a few, when grown to a sufficient size, may be carefully trans- 

 planted into such borders and places as you desire. For the me- 

 thod of sowing them, see page 15 1. 



Solving 1 various kinds of 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 bien- 

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

 roots many years, producing new flower stems annually, such as 

 everlasting sun flower, scarlet lychnis, perennial asters, &c. The 

 biennials are only of two years' duration, being sown one year, 

 flower and perfect their seeds the next, and soon after die, or be- 

 come of a dwindling growth, such as honesty, tree-primrose, tree- 

 mallow, Sec. 



Many kinds are proper to be sown now, such as carnations, pinks, 

 sweet-williams, wall-flowers, and stock July-flowers of all sorts : 

 also rose-campion, scarlet lychnis, columbines, Greek valerian, po- 

 lyanthus, auriculas', scabious's, and Canterbury bells. 



The seeds of hollyhocks, French honeysuckles, rockets, honesty, 

 or satin-flower, tree-primrose, broad-leaved campanula, and fox- 

 gloves ; snap-dragon, bee-larkspur, with seeds of most other sorts 

 of perennial and biennial plants, may now be sown. 



For an account of the various sorts to be raised from seed, see 

 the Catalogue of Plants at the end of the book. 



All the above, and other hardy perennial and biennial flower- 

 seeds, are to be sown in beds of light earth in the open ground. 



For the method of sowing them, see the Flower Garden for next 

 month. 



