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PRACTICE OF GARDENING. 



Part III. 



6505. Propagation and culture of biennial border-flowers. They are all raised from 

 seed, but some of the finest double varieties are continued by cuttings. The seed 

 of such sorts as ripen by August may be sown immediately after it is gathered ; but the 

 seed of those sorts which ripen later should be preserved till the following spring, and 

 sown in May or the beginning of June. Sow thinly in beds in the reserve-garden, 

 transplant into other beds when the plants are a few inches high, and in September or 

 October remove the plants to their final destination. If this be, as it most generally 

 will in the mingled flower-border, to provide a succession of the same sorts, then it can 

 only be done in the case of those sorts which are done flowering by September or the 

 first of October, and the others must be removed early in March with balls. Great 

 care is requisite in removing some sorts which have large tap-roots, as Oenothera, holly- 

 hock, lavatera, &c, for if materially checked they will not flower strongly. The best 

 mode is to nurse these sorts in large pots, and transplant them in October or February, 

 with their balls entire. The sorts continued by cuttings are chiefly fine double varieties 

 of wallflowers, stocks, rose-campions, &c. The cuttings may be taken from the flower- 

 stalks, or the root-shoots, early in summer, put under hand-glasses, and otherwise 

 treated as cuttings of perennials. If the cuttings of some sorts, as dahlia, chrysanthe- 

 mum, lobelia, &c. are taken off early in the season, they will flower in the autumn. 

 The plants once placed where they are to remain, their general culture and manage- 

 ment is the same as for the perennial border-flowers. (6187.) 



Subsect. 4. S]>ecies and Varieties of Hardy Annual Border-Flowers. 

 6506. HARDY ANNUAL BORDER- FLOWERS. JUNE. 



Height from 0to$ of a ft. 



RED. 

 Cheiranthus maritimus 



WHITE. 



Biscutella coronopifolia 

 Cheiranthus mari. fl. alb 

 Lychnis quadriedentata 

 VELLOW. 



BLUE. 



From'iofafoot to lifoot. 



RED. 



Silene pendula, Jan. 



WHITE. 



Cucubalus italicus 

 Silene quinquevulnera 



YELLOW. 



Centaurea suaveolens 



BLUE. 

 Cleonia lusitanica 

 Convolvulus siculus 



PURPLE. 

 Crepis rubra 



From 14 foot to Uifeet. 



YELLOW 

 BLUE. 



JULY. 



From 2i feet, to 5k feet. 



RED. 



Knautia orientalis 



YELLOW. 

 BLUE. 



From 3k feet upwards. 



YELLOW. 

 BLUE. 



RED. 

 Dianthus prolifer, p. 

 Lychnis lseta ' 

 Silene acteon 



WHITE. 



Bellium bellidioides 



YELLOW. 



Ahthericum annuum, p 

 Arctotis trlstis, t. 



anthemoides, t. 



RED, 



Chelidonium cornicula. 

 Geranium gruinum 

 Silene conoida rub. 

 Agrostemma ccelirosa 

 Antirrhinum viscosum 

 Delphinium aja.peach, t 

 Heaysarum crista-galli 

 Trifolium incarnatum 

 Silene ^Jgyptiaca 



WHITE. 



Anthemis maritima 

 Anthyllis cornicina 



tetraphylla 

 Antirrhinum chalepe. t. 



macrocarpon, t, 

 Artemisia pectinata 

 Briza maxima 

 Calendula hybrida, t. 

 Campanula specul.fl.alb. 

 Crucianella angustifolia 

 Cucubalus viscosus 

 Cynoglossum linifolium 



lusitanicum 

 Delphinium ajacis, white 

 Silene conoidea alb, 



1 



7* 



YELLOW. 



Alyssum campestre, p. 

 Anthemis valentina 

 Antirrhinum bipunctat. 



orontium 



speciosa flavum 



versicolor, p. 

 Arctotis anthemoides| 

 Astragalus triinestris' 

 Catananche lutea, t. 



ra perfoliata 

 Coronilla securidaca 

 Hippocrepis unisiliquosa 

 Reseda odorata 



RED. 



donis miniati 

 Blitum capitatum 

 Silene armeria rub. 

 Papaverrhoeas flo. pleno 

 Saponaria vaccaria 



WHITE. 

 Crucianella latifolia 

 Silene armeria flo. alb. 

 behen 



RED. 

 orientalis 



RED. 



Amaranthus caudatus 



YELLOW. 



Calendula arvensis 

 Fumaria capnoides 

 Impatiens noli tang. p. 

 jLupinus luteus 



flo.pallido 

 Scorpiurus muricata 



subvillosa 



vermiculata 

 Calendula stellata 

 Trifolium polonicum 



Delphinium aja. peach t. Malva mosehata 

 Malva mauritiana, p. | Amaranthus hypocondr 

 lividus 



Malva americana 

 Lathyrus odorat fl.incar 



WHITE. 



Agrostemma nicaensis' 

 Delphinium ajacis, white 

 Echium violac. flo. alb. 

 Lupinus albus 



angustifolius 



varius 



YELLOW. 



Crepis barb. flo. pallida. 

 Calendula officin. fl. pi. 



WHITE. 



Lathyrus articulatus 



odoratus, fl. alb. 



fl. varie. 

 Malva crispa 



limensis 



YELLOW. 



Amaranthus flavus 



hybridus 

 Lathyrus annuus 

 Momordica elaterium 



