In this section will be found those Biennials and Perennials that do not flower until the 
second season. The first summer the plants merely grow and gather a store of strength for 
next summer's flowering, and a stock of material for the next season's flowers. The seed may 
be sown in early spring with the Annuals, or later in the summer; but if sown late, give the seed- 
bed a cool, damp place, or keep the ground shaded and quite moist by artificial shading and 
watering, imtil the plants appear, or very likely the seeds will not germinate. This class of 
flowers do not usually keep in bloom a long time, and therefore are not suited for the lawn, 
where a continuous show of flowers or pretty foliage is absolutely necessary. To many, how- 
ever, the border of Perennials is the most interesting part of the flower garden. Every day 
almost it exhibits something new — some flower in bloom that we did not expect to see, or 
whose development we had been anxiously watcliing and awaiting. A pleasure or a surprise, 
usually both, await us at almost every visit. What a number of old garden flowers we find in the 
Perennial border. The Columbine, Pink, Canterbury Bell, Hollyhock, Sweet William, and a 
host of other friends, all find a home in this department. Then the Perennials fill a space that 
but for them would be almost destitute of flowers, for after the Bulbs they give us our earliest 
spring flowers. The Columbine and Canterbury Bell and Larkspur and Foxglove follow the 
Hyacinths and Tulips, and keep us well supplied until the Annuals are in their glory. Always 
have a few Perennials, but in a somewhat retired part of the garden, a pleasant border in some 
place v^^here you can retire and see a little unadorned beauty. You will enjoy it occasionally 
much more than the gayest bed on the lawn. The Perennial Climbers are admirable, and when 
we have so few adapted to our climate, should not be neglected. 
ADLUMIA, Nat. Ord. Fumariacece. 
Adlumia cirrhosa, or Alleghany Vine, is a very pretty native Biennial climber. The princi- 
pal attraction consists in its delicate pale green, triply pinnate foliage, the 
twining foot-stalks of which act as tendrils. The flowers are pink and white, 
not veiy conspicuous or beautiful, and yet are neat and graceful, and of the 
form seen in the engraving. The plant neither runs nor bears flowers the first 
season, but the second will often grow twenty feet. Sow seed in the spring, in 
a damp, cool place, or keep the ground shaded. Transplant in the autumn, if 
possible, though the spring will answer. Although strictly yv 
a biennial, and therefore flowering but once, most persons ^^^^^Ib 
would judge it to be a perennial, because in a damp situa- /TT'J^^^ 
tion, as on the north side of a porch or fence, self-sown ^"^^j 
seed germinate so freely that plants are always in abundance W '^fe 
in every stage of growth, so that some are ready to take the V 
place of the old vines each year. The Adlumia is known as the Wood Fringe, and is reall\' 
one of the most interesting of our native climbers. 
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