48 . THE FLOWER GARDEN COMPANION. 



from seedlings worth the attention of the florist to prolong 

 by cultivation. 



Biennials are generally hardy, although several kinds, as 

 the Campanula grandiflora, Fox-gloves, Double China Pinks, 

 and Snapdragons, are worth potting in the fall, and protecting 

 through the winter, either in frames or the green-house, for 

 early flowering plants in the spring. 



Culture. This class of plants is generally increased by 

 sowing the seed in the spring, in small patches, in the flower 

 borders, or in rows in a four feet bed, where the young plants 

 may remain to the latter end of August, or beginning of Sep- 

 tember, or so soon as the ground is sufficiently moist, after 

 the hot months, to warrant the planting them out for final 

 flowering the next year. This may be done either by plant- 

 ing them in four feet beds, in the place where they are to 

 remain, or the plants may be planted singly in the flower 

 border, where they are intended to remain for flowering. 

 The choice kinds of Sweet William, China Pink, Snapdragon, 

 and, indeed, any fine double flowering plants that are worth 

 saving, may be prolonged by layering down the young shoots 

 about the beginning of September, and taking off the young 

 plants when rooted, and planted into the place intended for their 

 final flowering the next spring. As there are but few varie- 

 ties of this class of plants, I shall speak of them separately in 

 this place, or, at least, those which can be easily cultivated in 

 the flower garden, and are perfectly hardy ; those of a tender 

 kind, which are often cultivated for the purpose of flowering 

 in the green-house, I have deferred to their proper place in 

 the Miscellany. 



Columbine, a pretty genus of plants, many of whinh are 

 natives, and found growing on rocky situations in various 

 parts of the United States, and highly deserving culture ; the 

 double, or garden varieties, are of various colors, from white 

 to a dark purple, and easily cultivated, by sowing the seed in 

 the spring and planting out in the fall among the herbaceous 

 plants in the flower borders. 



