HARDY BIENNIALS. 



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LIST OF HARDY BIENNIALS. 



Canterbury Bells 



Blue-flowers 



White 



Purple 



Pyramidal 

 Carnation. All the varieties, some- 

 what biennial-perennial. 

 Clary, Purple -topped 



Red-topped 

 Colutea, ^Ethiopian 

 French Honeysuckle 



Red 



White 

 Globe Thistle 



Hollyhocks. Somewhat biennial-per- 

 ennial ; all the varieties ; always 

 by seed 



Lunaria, Moonwort or Honesty 

 Mallow (Tree) 



Red 



Scarlet 



Purple 



Red, white-bordered 

 Party-colored 

 Variegated 

 Painted Lady 

 Double of each 



Mule, or Mongrel Sweet-william, 

 or Mule Pink 

 Tree Mallow (Lavatera arborea) 

 Tree Primrose 

 Night Stock 



Poppy, Yellow-horned (CheKdonium 



glaucum) 

 Rocket, Dame's violet 



Single white 



Double white 



Double purple 



Single purple 

 Rose Campion 



Red 



White 

 Scabius, double 



Dark purple-flowered 



Dark-red 



White 



Starry purple-flowered 



Starry white 



Jagged-leaved starry 

 Stock Gilliflower 



Brompton 



Queen 

 . Twickenham 

 Sweet-william 



Common upright tall yellow 



Small-flowered 

 Wall-flower 



Yellow-flowered 



Bloody 



White 



Double of each 

 Petunia 

 White 

 Lilac 



When you make your seedling-bed or nursery, cover it over 

 with straw, or fern, or matting, during frost ; and to prevent the 

 birds pecking up the seeds, it is requisite to protect the bed by 

 strewing light boughs of thorn bushes over it, or fixing a net 

 upon sticks as a covering, till the plants appear. If cats, dogs 

 or poultry intrude into the flower garden, it is in vain to hope for 

 enjoyment. 



Sow your biennial seeds in March, April, or May. I recom- 

 mend May, because the young plants in that month germ and 



