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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 pciod; 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, Sec. 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-carnpion, 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 ground. 
For the method of sowing them, see the Flower-Garden for next 
month. 
