188 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



There are many perennials and biennials that are now throwing or 

 sporting into annuals — that is, occasionally producing plants that have an 

 annual existence and bloom the first year from seed, instead of the second ; 

 these are being noticed and selected out for fixing, such as the annual 

 Sweet William, no doubt a cross between an annual Dianthus and some 

 late blooms of the old perennial Sweet William. These have a habit 

 similar to the annual Dianthus, but the flowers and leaf of the old Sweet 

 William. There is also an annual Hollyhock, one that, if sjwn in heat 

 in February and grown on well, will bloom the same summer, whereas 

 the ordinary Hollyhock, if sown however early in 1908, will not bloom 

 until June or July 1909 ; and the annual Wallflowers, which bloom from 

 June to the frost, if sown in February in slight heat and grown on. 

 I introduced the annual blood-red Wallflower about ten years ago, and 

 to-day there are four other colours — five in all — all of which I have intro- 

 duced very recently. With these annual varieties and the old biennial 

 ones, Wallflowers may be had in bloom in the garden nearly all the year 

 round. 



