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ther valuable from their pliability, so to speak, and the promptitude with 
which they may be used. They are besides of easy culture, many requiring 
nothing more than to have the seeds sown in the spot where they are to grow 
and flourish. Annuals may be divided into three classes, the hardy, the 
half-hardy, and the tender. The first class, ag stated above, are sown at 
once in the ground which they are to occupy ; the half-hardy succeed best _ 
when aided at first by a slight hotbed, and then transplanted into the open 
air; the tender are kept in pots, and treated as green-house or stove plants, 
to which departments they properly belong. It is scarcely necessary to re- 
mark, that the hardy and half-hardy sorts may be grown either in patches 
or in beds, and are subjected to all the rules which regulate the disposition 
of common border flowers. 
Hardy A Is.—Platyst californicus; Collomia coccinea ; Lepto- 
siphon androsace and densiflorus; Viscaria oculata and Binneyii; Valeria- 
nella congesta ; Eucharidium concinnum; Godetia viscosa, Lindleyana, and 
multiflora ; Eutoca multiflora, viscida; Campanula speculum, Lorii; Ma- 
lope trifida; Hibiscus trionum, bifrons; Nolana, various species ; Papaver 
somniferum, numerous varieties; P. Rhoeas, varieties; Gilia capitata, tri- 
color, splendens; Collinsia grandiflora; bicolor; Kaulfussia amelloides ; 
Clarkia pulchella, elegans; Cinothera rosea, rosea-alba, tenella, Roman- 
zovii; Senecio elegans; Mathiola annua (ten-week stock); Aster sinensis 
(China aster); Lupinus, several species; Nemophila insignis, atomaria, 
eramboides, discoidalis; Eschscholtzia californica, crocea; Limnanthes 
grandiflora; Calandrina grandiflora; Bartonia aurea; Colinsia bicolor, 
verna, heterophylla; Clintonia pulchella, elegans; Malope grandiflora ; 
Leptosiphon luteus; Platystemon californicum; Collomia grandiflora ; 
Coreopsis diversifolia; Sanvitalia procumbens ; Phacelia congesta, tenace- 
tifolia; Caliopsis astrosanguinea ; Centaurea Americana ; Lasthena cali- 
fornica ; Madia elegans ; Lupinus bicolor, elegans ; Helichrysum mecran- 
thum ; Adonis autumnalis ; Iberis umbellata; Alyssum, several species ; 
Linaria, various species; Delphinium Ajacis, consolida ; Lavatera trimes- 
tris ; Sphenogyne speciosa; Cladanthus arabicus; Schizanthus Priestii ; 
Eucaridium grandiflorum; Papaver Marsillii; Eutoca Wrangeliana, diva- 
vicata, and Menziesii; Silene armeria ; Rudbeckia amplexicaulis. 
Half-Hardy Annuals.—Callistema hortense ; Lopezia racemosa; Rho- 
danthe Manglesii; Tagetes patula (French marigold), erecta (African 
marigold), racemosa, &c.; Zinnia elegans, pauciflora; Xeranthemum an- 
nuum, Helichrysum fulgidum, Chrysanthemum earinatum ; Schizanthus 
pinnatus, porrigens, Grahami, Hookeri ; Salpiglossis atro-purpurea, picta ; 
Petunia nyctaginiflora ; Mirabilis Jalapa ; Mesembryanthemum crystalli- 
num, tricolor, white and red: Brachycoma ibeirdifolia ; Clintonia elegans, 
