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PRACTICE OP GARDENING. 



of a lighter description, and, unless they grow too vigorously 

 and luxuriantly, should have an occasional manuring. 



2. — Hardy Perennial Flowering Plants. 



Those plants are termed perennials, v/hich produce 

 flowers for an indefinite period of time, without being 

 renewed by seed or otherwise. Thus, in this sense, shrubs 

 and trees are perennials, though they are not usually called 

 by that name, as their woody habits have obtained for 

 them the distinct appellations of shrubs or trees. But 

 perennials, in the common sense of the term, are such 

 plants as not only produce flowers and leaves for an 

 indefinite number of years, but the leaves and flowers and 

 stems of which annually decay, to be reproduced in the 

 succeeding season. This is undoubtedly the most exten- 

 sive class of plants in the whole vegetable kingdom, and 

 the objects comprised in it are no less beautiful than they 

 are numerous, and abound in all parts of the world. Not 

 a fev/ of the most interesting species are found wild in 

 the woods and meadows of this country, but because they 

 are common, such is the prevailing desire for rarities, 

 that they are generally denied a place in British gardens, 

 Avhile only the scarce and uncommon ones, and such as 

 are supplied from foreign parts, are cultivated. 



In the following selection^ care has been taken to point 

 out such and such only as possess the greatest claims to 

 beauty, and at the same time are within the reach of all 

 classes, omitting all those which are less worthy of atten- 

 tion, as well as all such as are usually termed florists' 

 flowers," in which are included the principal sorts of bulbs 

 and tubers, and which will be made the subjects of future 

 notice. 



SELECT LIST OF HARDY PERENNIAL FLOWERING 

 PLANTS. 

 From three inches to a foot high. 

 Common Winter Aconite {Eranthis hyemalis). Flowers in Jan. 

 Yellow. 



Cos Cyclamen [Cyclamen coian). Fl, in Jannary. Red. 



Common tliree-lobed Hepatica and varieties {Hepatica triloha, et 



var.). Fl. in February. Various colours. 

 Whitish Wall Cress (Arabis alhida). Fl. in February. White. 

 Aizoon-like Draba {Draba aizoides). Fl. in February. Yellow. 



