PERENNIAL FLOWERS. $y. 



In their general growth, they are of various 

 ftrudures and dimenfions, from two or three 

 inches to eight or ten feet, in the numerous 

 diilerent genera and fpecies ; the greater part 

 upright, many of a trailing growth, others 

 climbing, either by tendrils, or in a volubi- 

 late twining order, difplaying a vaft variety 

 in their diiferent growths, foliage, flowers and 

 fruit, &c. and all of a hardy nature, to grow in 

 the open ground, in beds, borders, and fome 

 occafionally in pots, as may be required ; 

 and of which numerous forts are very delirable 

 ornaments for adorning the Flower Garden 

 and Pleafure Ground, flowering in fucceffion, 

 in the different fpecies and varieties, from 

 January or February till November j and, as 

 before obferved, are raifed by various methods 

 of propagation, fuch as many occafionally by 

 feed, and the greater part alfo either by ofF- 

 fets, fuckers, parting the roots, flips, cuttings, 

 layers, pipings, &c. as hereafter explained : 

 ind once raifed, the fame plants continue and 

 cncreafe by the root, and flower annually. 



As this tribe of hardy perennials confift o£ 

 many genera or families, and moll of the ge- 

 nera furnifhing different fpecies, lefs or more, 

 all the fpecies are difpofed in their proper fa- 

 milies, each family or genus diftinguiihed by 

 its botanic and Englilh name, with the proper 

 name of each fpecies and variety, as in the 

 following arrangement :— 



Acanthus (Bear's 



Breech) 

 -— Saft or fmooth 



— Thorny 



— Mofl-thorny 



I 2 Achillea 



