MOST-TEXDER ANNUALS; 45 



The above colledion of Tenderefl Annuals 

 being curious in their beautiful flowers, fo- 

 lii^ge, and fome particuhtr fingularities, men- 

 tioned under their refpeclive names, they me- 

 rit culture, as very delirable ornaments to the 

 Flower- Garden. 



They are all raifed by fowing the feed in a 

 hot-bed in March or April, and the young 

 plants, when an inch or two high, fhould be 

 taken up, and pricked either in the fame, or 

 a new hot-bed, under frames and lights, to 

 forward them in growth, till the middle or 

 latterendof Mayor beginning of J une,then all, 

 but the humble and fenfitive plants, removed 

 into the open air, fome principal forts planted 

 in pots, the others tranfplanted into the bor- 

 ders, Sec. or in want of hot-beds, or frames and 

 lights, moft of the forts may be fowed in a fmall 

 bed of natural earth, in a warm border, under 

 a frame or hand-glafles, in April and May ; or, 

 in default of fuch glafles, they may be fowed in 

 the latter end of April, or beginning or middle 

 of May, in a warm border, without any pro- 

 teftion, and planted out into borders, pots, &c. 

 in June; though they will be inferior, and 

 flower much later, than thofe forwarded in a 

 hot-bed, or under glalTes; therefore, where 

 convenient, it is moft advifeable to fow and 

 prick them in a hot-bed, &c. in which they 

 will attain good perfedion in growth, flower- 

 ing, and other properties, by June ; and con- 

 tinue flowering, in the different fpecies, from 

 June, July, Auguft, till the approach of cold 



weather 



