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wards placed in some part of the stove where 

 they must constantly remain. They should 

 then be carefully managed, and have plenty 

 of air admitted, as without this they are apt to 

 become sickly. When the plants become large 

 they must be shifted into pots of greater sizes ; 

 but care should be taken not to overpot them, 

 being still kept in the bark heat. The heat 

 should be kept up to that of the Anana, as 

 marked on botanical thermometers. And the tan 

 in the beds should be frequently turned over 

 and refreshed. They should also have water fre- 

 quently in summer in small quantities ; but in 

 winter more sparingly, a little once a week in 

 mild weather, and once in a fortnight or more 

 when frosty, may be sufficient. 



The hardy sort casts its leaves in winter; but 

 those of the tender kinds retain them, their 

 chief beautv in this climate depending upon 

 their green foliage, as they but seldom flower or 

 produce fruit. The fruit in the hardy sort is 

 different from that in the tender kinds, t\\ o or 

 three growing together at the foot-stalks of the 

 leaves. 



The hardy sort is highly ornamental in the 

 pleasure-ground, and the tender kinds in the 

 stove. 



ANNUAL PLANTS. Such plants as are of 

 one year's growth and duration, continuing for 

 the summer season, or only a few months. In 

 genera], how ever, all such plants as rise from 

 seed sown in the spring, arrive at maturity in 

 the summer or autumn following, producing 

 flowers and ripe seed, and which afterwards 

 perish in their tops, stems, and roots, are con- 

 sidered as annuals. The last effect takes place in 

 most sorts in the autumn and winter following ; 

 though some hardy kinds, when late sown, are 

 capable of standing over the winter until the 

 ensuing spring, especially those of the esculent 

 sorts ; but very few of the flowering kinds re- 

 main longer than October or November, unless 

 protected by a green-house, garden-frame, or 

 some covering of that nature. 



Plants of this tribe are numerous, as most of 

 those of the herbaceous kind, consisting of un- 

 cultivated plants, weeds, &c, and also a num- 

 ber of cultivated garden and field plants, both 

 of the esculent ana flowery ornamental sorts be- 

 long to it. The latter kind are often simply 

 termed annuals. They are likewise very 

 extensive, and of various kinds, some of 

 which, from the peculiarity of their na- 

 ture, and others from their producing beauti- 

 ful flowers, are cultivated for the purpose 

 of ornament in flower-gardens and pleasure- 

 grounds. 



The annual flowering plants are distinguished 



by gardeners into hardy and tender sorts : the 

 former are such as can be raised from seeds sown 

 on beds, borders, or other places, in the natural 

 or open ground ; the latter, such as constantly 

 require to be sown on, and- have in some de- 

 gree the aid of, hot-beds, to promote their per- 

 fect growth. 



Hardy Annuals. — These constitute a nu- 

 merous assortment of flowering plants, fit for 

 being cultivated in the natural ground. The 

 following are some of the principal, of them : 

 Adonis'^ or Adonis Flower. — Alkekengi, white- 

 flowered, blue, yellow -berried, red-berried. — 

 Amaranthus, Prince's Feather,. Love-lies-bleed- 

 ing, purple. — Alysson, white, sweet-scented. — 

 Amethystea, blue. — Balm, Maldivian. — Belve- 

 dere, or Summer Cypress. — Calendula, or Cape 

 Marigold. — Candy Tuft, whitc-ilowered, purple, 

 large, white, crimson. — Catch-fly, Lobel's red- 

 flowered, white, purple. — Caterpillar. — Clary, 

 red-topped, white-topped. — Convolvulus, three- 

 coloured minor, minor blue and white, minor 

 blue, major blue, great white, great striped 

 blue, great purple, red. — Cyarus, or Blue- 

 bottle, blue-flowered, purpie, white, red, 

 striped blue and white. — Cucumber, sporting. — 

 Devil in a Bush, blue-flowered, white, nettle- 

 leaved. — Fumatory, yellow. — Hawk-weed, yel- 

 low, red. — Hedge-Hog Trefoil, snail-shaped, 

 prickly, turbinated, globular, orbicular, long 

 crooked-twisted. — Honey-wort, great, less. — 

 Holly-hock, Chinese variegated, double-flow- 

 ered. — Jacolcea, or Kag-wort, purple-flowered, 

 white. — Indian Corn, tall-growing dwarf. — Kid- 

 ney-leans, scarlet runner, dwarf scarlet, 'large 

 white runnef. — Ketmia, bladder. — Larkspur, up- 

 right blue, upright purple, upright white, up- 

 right rose-coloured, white rocket, rose rocket, 

 dwarf rose rocket, dwarf white rocket, dwarf 

 blue rocket, dwarf red rocket, branching, blue 

 branching, white branching, double and single- 

 flowered of all the different sorts. — Lavatera, 

 Cretan red-flowered, white, purple. — Lupine, 

 dwarf yellow, large yellow, white, great hairy 

 blue, great hairy rose-coloured, narrow-leavecl 

 blue. — Lychnis, dwarf. — Marigold, double 

 orange-coiourcd, double yellow, double lemon- 

 coloured, gold-coloured, parti-coloured, yellow, 

 ranunculus-flowered, childing, or proliferous, 

 Cape Marigold. — Mallow, curled-leaved, orien- 

 tal. — Miguoiwtte, odoriferous or sweet-scented. 

 — Nasturtium major, or large-growing, minor 

 or dwarf. — Xolana, Peruvian dwarf blue. — A'i- 

 gilla, or Devil in a Bush. — Pansey, or Heart's 

 Ease, common, small, variegated, large Dutch 

 variegated, large purple, yellow, purple and yel- 

 low, purple, yellow, and white. — Peas, sweet- 

 scented, purple, white, painted ladv, scarlet^ 

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