240 SOWING 'OP ANNUALS. 



Schizanthus-pennatus of sorts. 



Snail Plants ; taking the name from the form of the seed-pods 



perhaps a dozen varieties. 

 Snapdragon : see Antirrhinum. 

 Stockgillyflower, Ten-week's-stock red, purple, white, scarlet, 



variegated each double, wallflower-leaved, of various colours, 



single and double; well worthy of a | place in the alphabetical 



articles, which see. 

 Strawberry -blite ; the fruit resembling the strawberry, but not 



eatable. 



Sultan-flower, or Sweet-sultan yellow, purple, red, white. 

 Sunflower; giant, dwarf each double yellow, pale yellow. See 



notice in alphabetical order. 

 Tobacco Plant long-broad-riarrow-Ieaved. Once sown in^ this 



country in the fields for a crop, but requires management to 



bring it to flower. 



Venus'-looking-glass blue, purple, white. 

 Virgin-stock purple and white. 

 Xeranthemum, or Everlasting-flower white, red, purple, and 



blue; remarkable for keeping its colour and form when dried. 



For the sowing of the above, the last week of 

 April (but earlier according to climate) or the first 

 of May, when the weather is fair and the ground 

 in the finest state of dryness, is the proper season, 

 although some sorts may be sown at different times 

 for a succession of flowers. Too little earth can 

 scarcely be given for a covering, considering how 

 many annuals, self-sown, get none at all. Those 

 seeds which are almost invisible may be laid on a 

 smooth bed and merely sprinkled with dust after 

 the manner of powdering hair. A common garden 

 basket, with a few handfuls of loose earth, answers 

 well for sifting over the seeds a dust as fine as 



