AND FLOWER-GARDEN DIRECTORY. 19 
CLASSIFICATION. 
Having described in the preceding pages all the essential par- 
ticulars, in detail, for choosing soil, sowing and gathering seed, 
transplanting, and general directions for the management of the 
flower-garden, we shall endeavor to embrace in the following 
classification all of the principal plants proper for the garden, 
with intimations of their nature, growth, and various methods 
of propagation, explained under their respective heads, and con- 
sisting of — 
TENDER ANNUALS, PERENNIALS, 
HALF-HARDY ANNUALS, BULBOUS AND TUBE-ROOTED PLANTS, 
HARDY ANNUALS, Dzcipuous PLANTS, AND 
BIENNIALS, EVERGREENS, 
In examining the catalogue of the seedsman, with a view of 
making a selection of such plants as will afford a proficiency and 
variety of bloom to the flower-garden, the Amateur becomes con- 
fused with the fine botanical fames and the indefinite directions 
given for their culture, and often selects those of inferior merit. 
In order to assist him in making a judicious selection, we shall 
endeavor to give an accurate description of each plant embraced 
in the following lists, giving both the botanical and common 
name, time of flowering, color, and habit of each plant. The 
time of flowering, hardiness, directions for sowing seed, &c., cor- 
respond to the meredian of Washington. Due allowance being 
made for different latitudes, they will be found to be equally ap- 
plicable. Slight variations may occur in some of these particu- 
lars, owing to position or cultivation, but those designated will 
generally be found to be correct. 
AynvaL FLowErs.—All plants of this tribe are only of one sum- 
mer’s duration; some of but two or three months. |Annuals may 
