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ladies’ flower gardener. 
CHAPTER Y. 
ANNUALS. 
/3©NNUALS, as I have observed before, are flowers that 
rise, bloom, and die in the same year; and must there- 
fore be raised from seed every year. 
The first class of annuals, being very delicate, and requiring 
great care, with the constant assistance of glass frames, I shall 
not even name, since they do not enter into the nature of my 
work. 
I proceed to the second class, which are hardier than the 
above, though they should be raised in a warm border, and 
be covered with a hand-glass, if you wish them to flower in good 
time. 
The ten weeks 5 Stocks will grow, if sown in a warm border, 
towards the end of March, and should be afterwards transplant¬ 
ed ; but if brought up in a hot-bed, they will flower a month or 
six weeks earlier. 
The China-aster, Chrysanthemum, white and purple Sultan, 
African and French Marigolds, Persicarias, &c., will grow well in 
a warm border of natural earth, if sown in April; but they also 
flower a month earlier if they are assisted by a hot-bed or glass. 
These annuals must be all planted out when tolerably strong, into 
the spots where they are destined to remain in the borders, tak¬ 
ing care to allow to each plant plenty of space, that they may 
not crowd each other. The China-aster branches into many 
stems and flowers, therefore they may be planted singly, or not 
