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THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
santhemum tricolor , and C. coronaria ; Love-lies-bleeding, and Prince's 
feather ; Gilia capitata , blue; Eutoca viscida , dark blue; several kinds 
of Centaurea , or Corn blue-bottle, Convolvulus, Sweet peas, and Lupines. 
All these annuals are quite hardy, and only require sowing in the open 
ground in April to flower freely in June and July. The following are 
also quite hardy; but as they are longer in coming to perfection they do 
better sown in autumn, as soon as the seed is ripe, or in February—when 
sown in April, they rarely flower before August or September. These 
plants are all either tall or bushy, and take a good deal of room : they 
are Erysimum Petrofskianum , with bright orange flowers; Collinsia 
bicolor , purple and white; Coreopsis tinctoria (also called Calliopsis 
bicolor), yellow and brown, several varieties ; the Rocket Larkspur ; 
Eschscholtzia ccdifornica , yellow, and E. crocea , orange; Iberis umbel¬ 
late the common Candy-tuft, purple, and I. coronaria , the Rocket Candy ¬ 
tuft, white; Calendula hybrida , and C. pluvialis , the Cape Marigolds, 
whitish; and Sphenogyne speciosa , buff. 
For the dwarf plants, the best for a small garden are Mignionette; 
Lupinus nanus , bright blue; Gilia tricolor ; Nemophila insignis , bright 
blue; Limnanthus Douglasi , yellow and white ; Calandrinia speciosa , 
dark crimson ; Eutoca multiflora , and E. Wrangeliana , both pale purple; 
Leptosip/ion densijlorus , and L. Androsace , purplish; Gilia achillcefolia , 
purple ; Lasthenia ccdifornica, and L. glabrata , bright yellow; Lychnis 
Iceta , pink ; Nolana atriplicifolia , blue, and Platystemon calif or nica, cream 
colour. All these are quite hardy, and will flower in six weeks after 
sowing. 
The seeds may be purchased at any of the seed-shops, or nurseries ; but 
for a town or suburban garden, I prefer Lee's, Hammersmith. The reason 
is, that the plants which produce the seeds are grown in the nursery, which 
is a poor cold soil, and surrounded by houses ; and the seeds of flowers 
thus reared are much more likely to thrive in the confined air of London 
or suburban gardens, than those of plants produced in the fine clear air of 
the country. The same may be said of roses and other plants; I never 
could keep roses above a year or two, however fine and healthy the plants 
might appear at first, when I procured them from the country; but those 
which I have had from Lee’s and Hopgood’s grow beautifully. 
When flower seeds are to be sown, the ground should be slightly stirred 
with a fork, hoe, or spade, and then raked. The spots to be sown should 
then either be made firm with the back of a spade, or with the saucer of a 
flower-pot, and the seed should be scattered very thinly; a little earth 
should be then spread over them, and if the weather be dry the earth 
should be slightly sprinkled with water from the hand. 
