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seed : and various exotic heaths, giving early food to 

 the bee and anticipating the glow of summer. 



Omitting the endless list of bulbous and fibrous 

 perennials, which may be collected by degrees, as 

 hinted above, the names of a moderate assortment of 

 annuals cannot fail to be useful. Annuals are not 

 to be picked up as other flowers may be ; the seed 

 must be ordered, arid the names may either not be 

 known or may not occur; besides, mistakes might 

 arise from not distinguishing between such as agree 

 with common sowing and those that require the 

 help of a hotbed. Of the under list, which are 

 hardy enough for ordinary shelter and elevation, ten 

 or twenty, according to the means of accommodation, 

 may be chosen for one year ; for the next a like por- 

 tion, proceeding further in the list ; and so on till 

 the catalogue be exhausted getting in this way both 

 the pleasure of new things, and an easy acquaintance 

 with such as are fairer to the eye or better suited to 

 the climate. 



v Adonis- flower several varieties: pheasant's-eye the most showy. 

 Agrostemraa-coeli-rosa. 

 Allyson sweet-scented. 

 < Amaranths; greater, or love-lies-bleeding lesser, or prince's- 



feather. 

 Antirrhinum, or snapdragon: many varieties ; the best are large 



flowering, and bicoloured properly biennial, but if early sown 



it will flower the same year. 

 Atriplex, called also red spinach. 

 Balm blue, red, white, hoary. 

 Balsum, yellow, or Touch-me-not; so called from its capsules 



exploding on being touched. 

 Belvidere resembling a cypress tree. 

 Bladder-ketmia : see Ketmia. 

 Borage purple, red, variegated. 



