THE GARDEN ALBUM AND REVIEW. 
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BEAUTIFUL ANNUALS. 
An annual plant is one that can only be raised 
from a seed, and completes its natural cycle of 
growth within a year. 
“ Hardy ” Annuals are those that can be 
grown from start to finish in the open air in our 
climate. Half-hardy ” Annuals are those that 
require the protection of a warm greenhouse or 
frame in the early part of their existence, so 
that they may be sufficiently developed for 
planting in the open air in the early summer 
months. 
Many plants, e.g., Tobaccos, Petunias, Pent- 
stemons, Snapdragons, Iceland Poppies, &c., 
although really perennials are often treated as 
annuals for the sake of convenience. Choice 
varieties of some of these, however, can be kept 
true by raising the plants from cuttings. 
When annuals are sown in the open air, the 
soil should be deeply dug, and well pulverised, 
and also have some well-decomposed manure or 
leaf-soil worked in at the same time. The 
surface should be rendered level, fine, and firm 
by treading with the feet, and using the rake. 
Some seeds are much smaller than others, and 
as a rule, the smaller the seeds the finer should 
be the surface of the soil. 
When annuals are intended to bloom in the 
places where sown, the seeds should be sown 
sparingly, and covered lightly with a thin 
sprinkling of fine gritty soil. If sown too 
thickly, the seedlings will afterwards have 
to be thinned out considerably, to allow plenty 
of air and light for the others. To secure an 
effect, good, bold clumps of annuals should be 
made. If the seeds are sown in drills or rows, 
the young plants may afterwards be “ pricked 
out ” when large enough to the positions in 
which they are to blossom. Seeds of hardy 
annuals may be sown out of doors in March 
and April, and if a succession of some kinds is 
required also in May and June. 
In the case of half-hardy annuals, the seeds 
should be sown in rich gritty sod in pots, pans, 
or shallow boxes in a greenhouse. If sown in 
March, in a temperature of 6o° to 65° F. many 
will germinate in 2 or 3 days, and most of them 
in a week or a fortnight if kept properly 
moistened. When large enough to handle 
easily, the young plants should be pricked out 
into shallow boxes or potted up singly into 
small pots. They may then be grown on 
gently with plenty of air and light, when root- 
action gets re-established. By the end of 
May, or early in June, they will be hardened 
off and ready for transferring to the outdoor 
garden. 
In the list given below the half-hardy 
annuals are indicated by an asterisk in front of 
the name. It should be understood, however, 
that most of the hardy kinds may also be 
raised under glass when a supply of blossom 
is required earlier in the season. There are 
many other annuals, but those mentioned will 
be found most easy to grow, and to give general 
satisfaction. 
Height I 
Name. in Colours. 
Inches. 
Alyssum, Sweet. 
Canary Creeper. 
Candytuft . 
"'China Asters . 
"'Carnations, Marguerite 
Chrysanthemum 
Burridgeanum 
Clarkia . 
Collinsia bicolor. 
Coreopsis Drummondi 
,, tinctoria ... 
,, atrosanguinea 
Erysimum 
Perovskianum 
Flax . 
Eschscholtzia 
californica 
Gaillardia picta. 
Gilia tricolor . 
Godetia . 
Gypsophila elegans ... 
"'Indian Pink . 
Larkspur . 
Love-in-a-Mist . 
I >upm ... ... ... ... 
Marigold (Calendula)... 
,, African (Tagetes) 
* _ „ French ( „ ) 
Mignonette... 
Morning Glory. 
Nasturtium, Tall 
,, Dwarf ... 
Nemophila insignis ... 
"'Nicotiana affinis. 
* ,, Sanderae ... 
Nigella . 
Phlox Drummondi ... 
Poppy, Shirley . 
,, Tulip . 
,, Peacock. 
"'Salpiglossis sinuata ... 
Sweet Scabious. 
"'Schizanthus . 
Silene pendula . 
^Stocks, Ten Week ... 
Sunflower . 
Sweet Peas . 
5:: Zinnia elegans . 
6 | white 
climb ! yellow 
12 | various 
9-12 ’ all colours 
except yellow 
9-12 ditto 
24 white, with 
crimson and 
yellow zones 
18-24 white, rose, &c. 
12 rose-purple 
and white 
18 yellow 
24 yellow and 
crimson 
24 deep crimson 
12-18 
12 
12 
12 
9 
12 
12 
12-18 
12-18 
12-36 
12 
I ^ 4 
6-24 
6-12 
climb 
> climb 
6-18 
12 
24-36 
24-48 
12-18 
12 
24-36 
15 
18 
18-24 
12-24 
2 4 
6-12 
12-18 
36-100 
climb 
12-18 
rich orange 
scarlet; blue 
orange, yellow, 
rose 
crimson and 
yellow 
| white, violet 
crimson, white, 
rose 
white, rose 
white, rose, 
pink, crimson 
blue, purple, 
rose, white 
sky-blue 
blue, white, 
rose, &c. 
yellow, orange 
ditto, ditto 
yellow, orange 
greenish, 
white, red, blue 
scarlet, yellow 
ditto ditto 
blue, white 
white 
white,crimson, 
scarlet, &c. 
sky-blue 
white, rose, 
purple, &c. 
all colours, 
except blue 
scarlet 
scarlet 
various 
rose,white,lilac 
crimson, &c. 
white, crimson 
purple, < 5 rc. 
rose, white, &c. 
all colours 
yellow, 
all colours 
all colours 
except blue 
