238 LIST OF ANNUAL FLOWERS. 



accomodation, may be chosen for one year; for 

 the next a like portion, proceeding further in the 

 list; and so on till the catalogue be exhausted 

 getting in this way both the pleasure of new things, 

 and an easy acquaintance with such as are fairer to 

 the eye or better suited to the climate. 



Adonis-flower several varieties: pheasant's-eye the most showy. 



Agrostemma-co3li-rosa. 



Allyson sweet-scented. 



Amaranths; greater, or love-lies-bleeding lesser, or prince's- 



feather. 



Antirrhinum, or Snapdragon: many varieties; the best are large, 

 flowering, and bicoloured properly biennial, but if early sown 

 it will flower the same year. 

 Atriplex, called also red spinach. 

 Balm blue, red, white, hoary. 

 Balsam, yellow, or Touch-me-not; so called from its capsules ex- 



ploding on being touched. 

 Belvidere resembling a cypress tree. 

 Bladder-ketmia; see Ketmia. 

 Borage purple, red, variegated. 

 Candy-tuft white and purple. 



Catchfly, Lobels many varieties and very ornamental ; the red 

 ' and white are beautiful when mingled. 

 Caterpillar plant; the pods give rise to the name. 

 Cayanus, or Blue-bottle of various sorts. 

 Clarkia-pulchella. 



Clary purple and red topped, of fine appearance. 

 Corcopsis-tinctoria brown and orange. 

 Gilla-capitata. 

 Globe Thistle. 

 Gourds; some one of about forty varieties may be tried in a warm 



sheltered place. See list for hotbed frame. 

 Hawkweed red and purple; the yellow is paltry. 



