44 
THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL 
have room to spread, they do not rise higher than from six inches 
to a foot; and then, as they are free flowerers, they are delicately 
handsome, and form a good contrast with various other annuals, 
both upright and spreading. 
ON ANNUALS. 
BY MR. R. PLANT, OF PADHOLME NURSERY, PETERBOROUGH. 
As the present month is the commencement of the period in 
which it becomes necessary to provide for the embellishment of 
the flower garden, the choice of plants desired for that purpose 
should now occupy some attention. The plants most suited for 
additional aids to those which are hardy, or, as they may be 
called, regular inhabitants of the parterre, may be simply divided 
into two classes,— Greenhouse plants, and Annuals ; the term 
greenhouse plants, including tender and half-hardy biennials and 
perennials, along with the suffruticose plants usually employed for 
turning out. Now, though this class of plants has very great 
claims upon our notice, yet the importance of annuals must be 
universally acknowledged to be paramount,—supplying us, as they 
do, with such a profusion of varied and beautiful objects of admi¬ 
ration, from the earliest period of solar influence, till the last rays 
of an October sun are lost in the frost and fogs of November. Hence 
it will be seen that the selection and proper disposition of annuals 
is a matter requiring as much of our consideration as any part of 
4 loriculture ; and as the disposition of plants generally, and more 
particularly as regards their colours, has been already spoken of 
in the Florist’s Journal, I will now confine myself to the choice ; 
and this the more readily, as there are many persons who take 
much pleasure in their flower gardens, and who may not have 
the advantage of glass for the protection of plants during winter, 
or their propagation in spring. To such, annuals are of the first 
consequence ; and with some of them, perhaps, a’' few words on the 
subject may find favour. 
The manner in which I shall, probably, be best understood 
with respect to the choice of annuals, will be to divide them into 
their natural classes ; viz.— hardy, half-hardy, and tender ; saying 
a few words on the proper method of growing them, and adding a 
