OF FLOWERS. 



SECT. XVrlT 



h OF ANNUALS. 



Annual flowers are ufually divided into three clafTes, 

 i* e. lender, lefs fender, and hardy. 



In the lift, feci ion 19th, the tender annuals are 

 marked I, the' lefs tender 2, and the unmarked are 



To this hjl of flowers might he added others, and 

 fome poflibly that are pretty; but many of the annuals 

 introduced for variety's fake in large gardens, planta- 

 tions, &c. are weed-like, dull, and rambling, and per- 

 haps a lev/ among thofe here mentioned may not be 

 fufficiemly ornamental (as. for inifance, the whites* 

 where there are other colours of the fame flower) to 

 give general fatisfa&ion ; foi r a gay appearance is cer- 

 tainly the fir ft object in the cultivation of flowers to 

 adorn our walks. There are rare plants, and others 

 admirable in their ftrufture and properties, which make 

 no fhew ; but thefe are rather fubjefts for the curious 

 lotanift, and he will defervedly think them worthy of a 

 pJace in his garden. 



Some flowexs are both beautiful and fragrant; but 

 many have only one of ihefe properties to recommend 

 them. Some are cultivated chiefly for the beauty or 

 "elegance of their leaf, as the tricolor, ice plant, pahna 

 chrifli, and the turled mallow; and fome that bear 

 pretty and fweet flowers, are meanly furnifhed with 

 leave's, as the yellow fultan. Others obtain £ place in 

 the garden, neither for fragrance, or flower, or leaf; 

 but merely for the Angularity of the fruit, or feed 

 veffel, as the egg plant, Jnails > cate/pillars > hedge hogs % 

 horns, and others. 



In the given li/l, fome of the tender annuals may 

 Occafioiialiy be confidered as lejs tender; as Amaran- 

 thus, eoxconb, aid tricolor, balfams, double^ as well as 

 fingle, w?Ajiramonium\ only they will not be fo forward 

 a»d fine. Some of thofe alfp among the lefs lender may 



