"82 OF FLOWERS. SECT. XVIII. 



fine full flowers, are furely better than many tall 

 dangling weak ones. 



A jecond. or even a third, fowing of hardy annuals 

 may be made, at two or three weeks between, to con- 

 tinue the blow, efpecially of thofe that come early, 

 and are foon off : Mid-May is not too late. The lark- 

 /pur, for infiance, will make a long fhow with us. bv 

 autumn, and early and late jpring plants; in (faort of 

 every flower that blows in Jammer, there may be three 

 fowings, and two of thofe that come early in autumn, 

 in order to a full fucceffion. 



Hardy annuals do not in general t ran/plant well, fo 

 fhould be {"own where they are to remain, and they 

 mull have a good foil in order to fuccefs. Take care to 

 fow the iallejl growing forts behind, and the lowejl in. 

 front, and to form the patches at a fufficient diftance 

 from one another, that the ground may be ftirred and 

 raked between thern. A garden may be too full of flow- 

 ers, which it certainiv is, if the earth is notfeen diftinftly 

 round about them : for when that is clean and frefh, all 

 things growing in it appear more lively ; It is, as it were, 

 the back-ground of a pifture. A few hardy annuals 

 may be fown in pots, fetting them where they have only 

 the morning fun, and when in flower, they will ferve 

 to put into any particular place, tor ornament, or be 

 turned out into the open ground, where fomething 

 may be wanting. 



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2. OF BIENNIALS. 



There are but a few of thefe, and the principal forts 

 will be found in the lift of them, next jeclion, where 

 observations will be made on particular plants. 



Thefe are to he.fozcn in drills, or in beds, at broads 

 caff, the latter end of March, or beginning of April, 

 where they have only the morning fun, and the ground 

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