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PRACTICE OF GARDENING. 



Part III. 



6505. Proimgation and culture of biennial border-Jioivers, 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 dalilia, 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. Species and Varieties of Hardy Annual Border-Flowers. 

 6506. HARDY ANNUAL BORDER-FLOWERS. — JUNE. 



RED. 



Cheiranthus maritimus 



WHITE. 



Biscutella coronopifolia 

 Cheiranthus mari. fl. alb. 

 Lychnis quadriedentata 

 YELLOW. 



Height from Otoi of aft. 



From lof afoot io li/oo/. 



RED. 



Silene pendula, Jan. 



WHITE. 



Cucubalus italicus' 

 SUene quinquevulnera 



YELLOW. 



Centaurea suaveolens 



BLUE. 

 Cfleonia lusitanica 

 Convolvulus slculus 



PURPLE. 

 Crepis rubra 



From l^fuutto i^feet. 



YELLOW 

 BLUE. 



JULY. 



From 2.i fiet^io 3J feet. 



RED. 



ICnautia orientalis 



eentaurea erupina 

 onvolvulus sibiricus 

 WHITE. 



YELLOW. 

 BLUE. 



From 3J Jerf upwards. 



YELLOW. 

 BLUE. 



RED. 



Dianthus prolifer, p. 



WHITE. 



Bellium bellidioides 



TELLOW. 



Afilhericumannuum, p 

 Arctotis tristis, t. 



— anthemoides, t. 



RED. 



Chelidonium comicula. 

 Geranium gruinum 

 Silene conoida rub. 

 Agrosterama coelirosa 

 Antirrhinum viscosum 

 Delphinium aja.peach, 

 Hedysarum crista-galli 

 Trifblium incarnatum 

 Silene jEgyptiaca 



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. 



YELLOW. I 



Alyssum campestre, p. 

 Anthemis valentina 

 Antirrhinum bipunctat. 



— orontium 



— speciosa flavum 



— versicolor, p. 

 Arctotis anthemoides^ 

 Astragalus trimestris 

 Catananche lutea, t. 

 Chlora perfoliata 

 Coronilla securidaca 

 Hippoorepis unisUiquosa 

 R«seda odorata . 



RED. 



Adonis miniati 

 Blitum capitatum 

 Silene avmeria rub. 



WHITE. 



Crucianella latifolia 

 Silene arraeria flo. alb. 

 — behen 



I RED. RED. 



Echium orientalis Amaranthus caudatus 

 Delphinium aja. peach <. iMalva mosehata 

 1 Malva mam-itiana, p. I Amaranthus hypocondr. 

 , — lividus 



Malva americana 

 Lathyrus odorat fl .incar. 



WHITE. WHITE. 



Agrostemma nicaensis [Lathyrus articulatus 

 Delphinium ajacis, white i — odoratus, fl . alb. 



YELLOW. 



Calendula arvensis 

 Fumaria capnoides 

 Impatiens noli tang. p. 

 Lupinus luteus 



— — flo. pallido 

 Scorpiurus muricata 



— subvillosa 



— vermiculata 

 Calendula stellata 

 Trifolium polonicum 



Echium violac. flo. alb. 

 Lupinus albus 



— angustifoUus 



— varius , 



Crepis barb. flo. pallida. 

 Calendula oflicin. fl. pi. 



YELLOW. 



Amaranthus flavus 



— hybridus 

 Lathyrus annuus 

 Momordica elaterium 



