Book II. 



FLOWERS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES. 881 



SuBSEGT. 5, S])ecies and Varieties of Half-hardi/ Annual Border- Floivers. 



6512. HALF-HARDY ANNUAL BORDER- FLOWERS, FLOWERING 

 IN JULY, AUGUST, AND SEPTEMBER. 



H light from to i of aft. 



From 3 of a foot io Ufoot. 



From li foot to^fiel. 



From 9.^ feet to feet. [ FromZh feet upwards. 



RED. 



WHITE. 



Ciblus niloticus 



VELLOW. 



BLUE. 



^'^olana prostrata 



PURPLE. 



iVTonopsis scintillaris 

 Ricotia ajgyptiaca 



VARIEGATED. 

 GBEEN. 



RED. 



Dianthus sinensis 

 Lopezia racemosa, p. 

 Stevia pedita 

 — serrata 



WHITE. 



Ricinus inermis, p. 

 viridis 



YELLOW. 



Spilanthes acmella, p. 

 Cacalia coccinea, p. 

 Tagetes lucida 



BLUE. 

 PURPLE. 



VARIEGATED. 

 GREEN. 



RED. 



Aster sinensis, red 



— — bonnet 



— — red quill. 

 Mirabilis jalajpa. flo. rub. 

 Zinnia multiflora, rub. 



■ — revoluta 



— verticiUata 



WHITE. 



Aster sinensis, white 



— — quilled 

 Mirabilis jalapa, flo.albo. 

 Mirabilis longiflora 

 Ricinus communis, p. 



YELLOW. 

 Argemone mexicana, p. 

 Bioens heterophylla 

 Celsia orienfalis 

 Fumaria vesicaria 

 Gnaphalium fbetidum 



— undulatum 

 Mirabilis jalapa lutea 

 Tagetes tenuifolia 

 Zinnia multiflora lutea 



— pauciflora 

 Tagetes patula simp. 



— — flo. pleno. 



— nana, simp. 



— — - pleno 



BLUE, 



Aster sinensis, light blue 



— — quilled 

 PURPLE. 



Aster sinensis chine, pur. 



— — purp. quilled 

 Chrysanthemum tricolor 

 Datura metel 



Zinnia violacea 



VARIEGATED. 

 Aster sinensis, pur. stri. 



_ _ red — 

 Mirabilis jala. flo. ru. st. 



— — flo. lut. stria. 

 GREEN. 



RED. * 

 Senecio elegans, fl. in. \A. 



WHITE. 



Senecio elegans, fl. al. pi. 



YELLOW. 



Galinsogea parviflora 



— triloba 

 Tagetes erecta lutea 



— — flor. tereti 



— — auraiitia 



— — teret. aur. 

 Carthamus tinctorius 



BLUE. 



PURPLE. 



Datura ceratocaulis 

 Senecio elegans, purji. 



VARIEGATED, 



GREEN. 



Nicotiana paniculata 



RED. 



Polygonum orientale 

 luomoea coccinea, j>. 

 Nicotiana glutinosa 



— tabac. fol. ma. 

 (Convolvulus pur. fl. car. 



WHITE. 



Convoh-ulus discolor 



— michauxii, pi. 

 Chrysanthem. cor. H. al. 



— pet teret. al. 



TricKosanthes auguina 



YELLOW, 

 Chrysanthem. coronari. 



— coron. pet. tereti. 

 Cucumis colocynthis 



— dudaim 

 — ■ flexuosus 



Helianthus annuus 



— — flo. pleno 



— — nanus 



— — florepallido 

 Momordica balsamina 



— luffa 

 Rudbeckia amplexifolia 

 Tricosanthes cucumeri- 

 Xeranthemum lucidum 

 Ximensia encelioides 

 Ipomoea phoenicea> p. 



BLUE. 

 Atropa physaloides 

 Convol. jmr. f). caer. pal. 



PURPLE. 

 Convolvulus purpurea 



VARIEGATED. 



GREEN. 



(5513. Propagation and culture of half. hardy annual flowers. These are raised from seed, wliich is sown 

 in March in a hot-bed ; and the plants, when an inch or two high, are transplanted into another bed of 

 very moderate temperature. Here they may remain till the middle of May, or till all danger from frosty 

 nights is over, and be then transplanted to where they are to flower in the borders, and treated in all 

 respects as hardy annuals. 



6514. To save seed. In dry seasons, most sorts will ripen seeds, if permitted, but in wet seasons, unless 

 the plants have been well forwarded in spring, and planted in a dry soil and warm situation, the seed will 

 not be matured. In such cases, a hand-glass supported over the flower is of use ; or some may be re- 

 moved with balls into large pots, and placed in an airy pit, frame, or green-house. In the northern and 

 western counties, where the climate is cold and moist, half-hardy annuals never ripen their seeds in any 

 year ; and supplies are therefore annually obtained from the London seedsmen. 



Sect. III. Floivers for 2}articular Purposes. 



G515. The particular purposes to which lowers are sometimes applied, may be either the concealment 

 of local defects, or the production of local beauties. Among the former may be classed, covering naked 

 walls, posts, parts of ruins, or other upright objects ; concealing horizontal defects, as naked sub-barren 

 spots, unsightly banks, &c., producing vegetation under the shade and drip of trees : among the latter, 

 ornamenting water with flowering plants ; ornamenting rocks, or assemblages of stones formed in imitation of 

 rocks ; preserving a green appearance on beds or borders during winter ; forming edgings to beds or 

 borders ; furnishing odors ; and presenting botanical, curious, and scientific assemblages, 



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