This section is from the book "The Villa Gardener", by J. C. Loudon. Also available from Amazon: The Villa Gardener.
The seeds of all these plants may be readily obtained in the seed-shops, and they should all be sown in autumn, if they are to flower in spring; as if sown in spring they will not flower till late in the summer. "About an inch in thickness of very light soil should be laid on a hard surface of rock or gravel, in any obscure part of the garden, and in this the seeds should be sown the first week in September. In March or April, according to the season, when the flower-beds and borders have been dug over and prepared, the young seedlings should be taken up by spadesful and laid over the bed, filling up all the interstices between the patches with earth, so as to make the surface even." - (Ladies' Companion to the Flower-Garden.)
Name. | Colour. | Size. |
Bartonia aurea | Yellow | Spreading. |
Calliopsis, or Coreopsis, Drummondii | Yellow and Brown | Tall. |
---------tinctoria | Yellow and Brown | Tall. |
Clarkia elegans | Reddish Purple | Tall. |
-------------------var. rosea | Pink | Tall. |
---------pulchella | Purple | Tall. |
------- -------- var. alba. | White | Tall. |
Collinsia bicolor | Lilac and White | Moderate. |
------------- grandiflora | Blue and Purple | Dwarf. |
Erysimum Perowvkianum | Orange | Tall. |
Eschscholtzia callifornica | Yellow | Spreading. |
------------------crocea | Orange | Dwarf. |
Eutoca multiflora | Pale Lilac | Dwarf. |
---------Franklini | Pale Blue | Dwarf. |
---------viscida | Dark Blue | Coarse growing. |
Gilia achilleaefolia | Purple | Dwarf. |
---------bicolor | White and Brown | Dwarf. |
- ------capitata | Blue | Tall. |
Tar. alba | White | Tall. |
tricolor | White, Brown, and Lilac | Dwarf. |
Godetia lepida | Purple and Crimson | Dwart |
---------Lindleyana, or roseo-alba | White and Rose | Moderate. |
------------- purpurea | Purple | Tall. |
- - Romanzovii | Blue | Dwarf. |
---------vinosa | Pale Lilac | Dwarf. |
Lasthenia californica | Yellow | Spreading. |
Leptosiphon dengiflorus | Pale Purple | Dwarf. |
------- androsaceaus | White | Dwarf. |
Limnanthes Douglasii | Yellow and White | Spreading;. |
Lopinus nanus | Blue | Dwarf! |
---------affinis | Blue | Dwarf. |
---------micranthus | Purple and Blue | Dwarf. |
Nemophila atomaria | White and Black | Moderate. |
--------aurita | Purple | Dwarf. |
- - discoidea | Very Dark | Moderate. |
-------insignis | Bright Blue | Dwarf. |
---------phacelioides | Lilac | Moderate. |
---------maculata | White and Purple | Moderate. |
Platystemon californicus | Cream colour | Moderate. |
555. List of other ornamental annuals, which should be sown in autumn:
Namt. | Country. | Colour. | Site. |
Adonis autumnalis | Britain | Scarlet | Moderate. |
Delphinium Ajacis | Crimea | Different colours | Tall. |
---------nanum | Dwarf |
Name. | Country. | Colour. | Size. |
Iberis umbellate | Candia | White and Purple | Moderate |
----------coronaria | White | Tall. | |
Malcomia maritima | South of Europe | Lilac | Dwarf. |
Viola tricolor | Europe | Various colours | Dwarf. |
 
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