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hardy annuals, such as large and dwarf annual sunflowers, sweet 
pea of every kind, larkspur, flos-adonis, persicaria, Tangier peas, 
Nigilla, Venus's looking-glass, Venus's navelwort, double dwarf 
poppy, Lobel's catchfly, dwarf-lychnis, snails, horns, hedgehogs, 
caterpillars, mignonette, china-aster, horse-shoes, belvidere. candy- 
tuft, honey-wort, convolvulus-minor, cyanus, china-hollyhock lava- 
tera, curled mallow, winged pea, china pink, ten weeks stock, and 
many other sorts, which will flower better if sown early, than if 
delayed to a late period; though every of the above will succeed 
very well if sown in the beginning of next month. 
These should be sown, each kind separate, in patches in the dif- 
ferent borders and flower-beds, &c. finally to remain where sown; 
or, a few, when grown to a sufficient size, may be carefully trans- 
planted into such borders and places as you desire. For the me- 
thod of sowing them, see page 159. 
Sowing various kinds of fibrous-rooted perennial and biennial 
Plants. 
Perennial and biennal flower-seeds, of most kinds, may be sown 
in the middle and southern states, towards the latter end of the 
month; in the eastern states, the middle or latter end of April will 
be preferable. 
It is to be observed, that these kinds do not flower the same year 
they are sown; but all the sorts of them will flower strong, and in 
good perfection the year after. 
As every one may not know the meaning of perennial and bien- 
nial plants; the perennials are those which continue on the same 
roots many years, producing new flower stems annually, such as 
everlasting sun flower, scarlet lychnis, perennial asters, &c. The 
biennials are only of two years' duration, being sown one year, 
flower and perfect their seeds the next, and soon after die, or be* 
come of a dwindling growth, such as honesty, tree-primrose, tree- 
mallow 8cc. 
Many kinds are proper to be sown now, such as carnations, pinks, 
sweet-williams, wall-flowers, and stock July-flowers of all sorts; 
also rose-campion, scarlet lychnis, columbines, Greek valerian, po- 
lyanthus^ auriculas, scabiouses, and Canterbury bells. 
The seeds of hollyhocks, French honeysuckles, rockets, honesty, 
or satin-flower, tree-primrose, broad-leaved campanula, and fox- 
gloves; snap-dragon, bee-larkspur, with seeds of most other sorts 
of perennial and biennial plants, may now be sown. 
All the above, and other hardy perennial and biennial flower- 
seeds, are to be sown in beds of light earth in the open grouud. 
For the method of sowing them, see the Flower-Garden (or next 
month. 
