MarJ] 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



ON THE CULTIVATION OF CORIOPSIS TINCTORIA AND SIMILAR 



ANNUALS. 



There are many annuals which may be brought into flower 

 much earher in the season, and be much improved in size 

 and the perfection of their flowers, by being sown in the 

 latter end of summer, and protected during winter under 

 frames, &c. ; of this sort is the Coriopsis tijictoria, lately 

 introduced into this country, and now cultivated in almost 

 every garden. The whole of the varieties of Cheiranthiis 

 annus, or ten-week stocks, Viola tricolor, with its endless 

 varieties ; Iberis wnhellata, Lathyrus adorata, Delphinium 

 ajacis, Ccntauria cyanus, and many others ; where these have 

 stood the winter, towards the end of this month, or beginning 

 of the next, they should be planted out where they are to 

 remain in the flower borders. The ten-week stocks and 

 Coriopsis will be considerably forwarded and improved, if 

 potted into small pots, and kept under the shelter of a frame 

 until they have attained the height of five or six inches, and 

 until the weather has become somewhat mild. 



PROPAGATING VARIOUS DOUBLE FLOWERS. 



Double flowers are the pride of the florist, but are regarded 

 by the botanist as vegetable monsters, produced by luxuriance 

 of nourishment. Many of them have long been esteemed 

 flower garden plants, and as the chance of producing them 

 from seeds is so uncertain, the gardener has recourse to a 

 prolongation of the plants by cuttings to increase or continue 

 his stock. 



Most herbaceous plants, with double flowers, are readily 

 propagated by cuttings, whether they be annuals, biennials, 

 or perennials, and the season of propagating them by such 

 is in spring before the flower-stalks are too far advanced, and 

 in autumn before the flowers are beginning to fade. Some, 

 however, are not so readily propagated as others, of this the 

 double rocket, Hesperis matronalis, furnishes an example. 

 Of this plant there are two varieties, differing in the color of 

 their flowers, the one being white, and the other purple. 



