498 Advantages of hardy Annuals. 



Art. VIII. List of Plants suitable for a Flovoer-Garden, tioJnch, it is 

 found by Experience, are not liable to be eaten by Hares. By P. 

 Frost, Gardener, Dropmore. 



The following list of plants contains those which, when bedded 

 out at Dropmore, are seldom gnawed or bitten by hares or rab- 

 bits, &c. ; except those that are distinguished in tiie list by 

 an asterisk, which are sometimes gnawed when newly planted. 

 Newly planted things are more liable to injury than such as have 

 been in the ground some time. 



Tropseolum raajus flore pleno, Nierembergza calycina. 



Ferbena StsOomidna. »S'alvia chamsedrifolia, 

 pulchella. fulgens. 



* venosa. Graharaz. 



* chamaedrifdb'a. .Senecio elegans. 

 {Melindris'). Kaulfussia flmelloides. 



Bouvardia triphjlla. Mahernz« pinnata. 



* i/eliotropiuni sp. Petunia nyctaginiflora. 

 Calceolaria ^alvitolia. rosea. 



tbyrsiflora. prae'nitens. 



rugosa. phoenicea. 



angustifolia. blanda. 



ffi'nothera macrocarpa. il/imulus roseus. 



Pelargonium optabile. Isotoma axillaris. 



Davey«Hz«;z. Alonsoa linearis. 



pavonipum. acutifolia. 



Black Prince. Cineraria amelloides. 



Fairy Queen. Fachsi« globosa. 



Scarlets in var. 



Art. IX. On some of the Advantages attending the Ctdture of Hardy 

 Annuals. By John Gate, Gardener to His Grace the Duke of 

 Bedford, at Bedford Lodge, Carabden Hill. 



The regularity and neatness which constitute good keeping in 

 the flower-garden, however desirable they may be in other re- 

 spects, tend to do away with many of those invaluable plants 

 called hardy annuals ; because their reproduction from self- 

 sowing cannot take effect when high keeping is adhered to. 

 The suitableness of these annuals to the climate of this countr}^, 

 when sown in autumn, or permitted to sow themselves, is such 

 as to render them truly useful; and their value was fully proved 

 here in the spring of the present year. During the cold weather 

 which prevailed at that season, not a few of the plants, the seeds 

 of which were introduced into this country from North America 

 by the late Mr. Douglas, were here apparently in their proper ele- 

 ment. As soon as the cold weather ceased, they came into blossom, 

 and made a brilliant display ; a circumstance which goes far to 

 prove not only their importance for an early show of flowers, but 

 their adaptation for ornamenting borders of plantations; especially 

 as many of them are not likely to be eaten by hares or rabbits. 

 As we do not consider groups of such plants, when in a state of 

 maturity and in seed, in character with the good keeping which 



