HARDY BIENNIALS. 
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LIST OF HARDY BIENNIALS. 
Canterbury Bells 
Biae-flowers 
White 
Purple 
Pyramidal 
Carnation. All the varieties, some¬ 
what biennial-perennial. 
Clary , Purple-topped 
Red-topped 
Colutea , ^Ethiopian 
French Honeysuckle 
Red 
White 
Globe Thistle 
Hollyhocks. Somewhat biennial-per¬ 
ennial ; all the varieties; always 
by seed 
Lunaria , Moonwort or Honesty 
Mallow (Tree) 
Red 
Scarlet 
Purple 
Red, white-bordered 
Party-colored 
Variegated 
Painted Lady 
Double of each 
Mule, or Mongrel Sw 7 eet-william, 
or Mule Pink 
Tree Mallow (Lavatera arborea) 
Tree Primrose 
Night Stock 
Poppy , Yellow-horned (Chelidonmm 
glaucum) 
Rocket , Dame’s violet 
Single white 
Double white 
Double purple 
Single purple 
Rose Campion 
Red 
White 
Scabius , double 
Dark purple-flowered 
Dark-red 
White 
Starry purple-flowered 
Starry w’hite 
Jagged-leaved starry 
Stock Gilliflower 
Brompton 
Queen 
Twickenham 
Sweet-william 
Common upright tall yellow 
Small-flowered 
Wall-flower 
Y ello w-flo wered 
Bloody 
White 
Double of each 
Petunia 
White 
Lilac 
When you make your seedling-bed or nursery, cover it over 
with straw, or fern, or matting, during frost; and to prevent the 
birds pecking up the seeds, it is requisite to protect the bed by 
strewing light boughs of thorn bushes over it, or fixing a net 
upon sticks as a covering, till the plants appear. If cats, dogs 
or poultry intrude into the flower garden, it is in vain to hope for 
enjoyment. 
Sow your biennial seeds in March, April, or May. I recom¬ 
mend May, because the young plants in that month germ and 
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