IN this section will be found those Biennials and Perennials that do not flower until the 

 second season. The first summer the plants merely grow and gather a store of strength for 

 next summer's flowering, and a stock of material for the next season's flowers. The seed may 

 be sown in early spring with the Annuals, or later in the summer ; but if sown late, give the seed- 

 bed a cool, damp place, or keep the ground shaded and quite moist by artificial shading and 

 watering, until the plants appear, or very likely the seeds will not germinate. This class of 

 flowers do not usually keep in bloom a long time, and therefore are not suited for the lawn, 

 where a continuous show of flowers or pretty foliage is absolutely necessary. To many, how- 

 ever, the border of Perennials is the most interesting part of the flower garden. Every day 

 almost it exhibits something new some flower in bloom that we did not expect to see, or 

 whose development we had beea anxiously watching and awaiting. A pleasure or a surprise, 

 usually both, await us at almost every visit. What a number of old garden flowers we find in the 

 Perennial border. The Columbine, Pink, Canterbury Bell, Hollyhock, Sweet William, and a 

 host of other friends, all find a home in this department. Then the Perennials fill a space that 

 but for them would be almost destitute of flowers, for after the Bulbs they give us our earliest 

 spring flowers. The Columbine and Canterbury Bell and Larkspur and Foxglove follow the 

 Hyacinths and Tulips, and keep us well supplied until the Annuals are in their glory. Always 

 have a few Perennials, but in a somewhat retired part of the garden, a pleasant border in some 

 place where you can retire and see a little unadorned beauty. You will enjoy it occasionally 

 much more than the gayest bed on the lawn. The Perennial Climbers are admirable, and when 

 we have so few adapted to our climate, should not be neglected. 



ADLUMIA, Nat. Ord. Fumariacece. 



Adlumia cirrhosa, or Alleghany Vine, is a very pretty native Biennial climber, 

 pal attraction consists in its delicate pale green, triply pinnate foliage, the 

 twining foot-stalks of which act as tendrils. The flowers are pink and white, 

 not very conspicuous or beautiful, and yet are neat and graceful, and of the 

 form seen in the engraving. The plant neither runs nor bears flowers the first 

 season, but the second will often grow twenty feet. Sow seed in the spring, in 

 a damp, cool place, or keep the ground shaded. Transplant in the autumn, if 

 possible, though the spring will answer. Although strictly 

 a biennial, and therefore flowering but once, most persons 

 would judge it to be a perennial, because in a damp situa- 

 tion, as on the north side of a porch or fence, self-sown 

 seed germinate so freely that plants ai - e always in abundance 

 in every stage of growth, so that some are ready to take the 

 place of the old vines each year. The Adlumia is known as the Wood Frin 

 one of the most interesting of our native climbers. 



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