26 HARDY ANNUALS. 



Or, in fowing hardy annuals, fome may be 

 occafionally fowed in drills, either along the 

 middle or back part of flower-borders, 5cc. as 

 fweet peas, larkfpurs, &c. or, fometimes, 

 thefe two forts in particular are fowed in fe- 

 parate beds, each fort diilinfl, in drills 

 lengthways a foot diftancc, more efpecially 

 the painted-lady fweet peas and upright lark- 

 fpurs, that, as each difplays flowers of various 

 colours, they may make a grand /hew toge- 

 ther under one point of view. Other forts are 

 alfo occafionally fowed in drills, as ten-week's 

 ftocks, either in continued rows in beds a foot 

 afunder, or fometimes a fingle row along the 

 edge or middle of beds or borders : alfo, 

 fometimes, candy-tuft lupines, virgin ftock, 

 Venus* looking-glafs, mignonette, and others 

 of moderate growth, are fowed in drills in 

 beds, or fome occafionally in a row along the 

 edge of a bed or border of the above low or 

 moderate-growing kinds, to form a fort of 

 temporary fiimmer edging ; though fome of 

 thefe forts are apt to grow too fpreading for 

 this purpofe of edging, fuch as the large candy- 

 tuft, large Venus' looking-glafs, &cc. efpe- 

 cially for fmall narrow borders, and for this 

 occafion the virgin ftock, being a fmall deli- 

 cate-flowering plant, is more commonly 

 elleemed 5 it however continues but a Ihprt 

 time in full bloom, but may be continued in 

 fucceffion, by fowing every month, from 

 March till June or July. 



And, if required to raife any particular 

 ornamental flowering forts of the hardy ani» 



nuals 



