A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

stem, and each shoot will make a new plant. It is stated, that if the shoots themselves, without any root, be planted in light soil, covered with a bell-glass, or large tumbler, and carefully watered, they will produce plants superior to those with roots. _Annuals_ These are flowers which last only one season. They should be so planted, that the tallest may be in the middle of a bed, and the shortest at the edges; and flowers of a similar color should not be planted adjacent to each other. The following is a list of some of the handsomest Annuals, arranged with reference to their color and height. Those with a star before them, do best when sowed in the Autumn. Those with _tr._ after them, are trailing plants. SIX INCHES TO ONE FOOT HIGH. _White._ Ice Plant, Sweet Alyssum, White Leptosiphon, Walker's Schizopetalon, Blumenbachia insignis, *Candytuft. _Yellow._ *Yellow Chryseis or Eschscholtzia, Sanvitalia procumbens, _tr._, Musk-flowered Mimulus. _Rose._ Many-flowered Catchfly, Rose-colored Verbena, _tr._ _Red._ *Chinese Annual Pink, Virginian Stock, Calandrinia Speciosa. _Blue._ Graceful Lobelia, Nemophila insignis, Clintonia pulchella, Clintonia elegans, Nolana atriplicifolia, _tr._, Anagallis indica, Commelina coelestis, Grove Love, Pimpernel (blue.) _Varying Colors._ *Heart's Ease, or Pansy, Dwarf Love in a Mist, *Rose Campion. ONE FOOT TO EIGHTEEN INCHES HIGH. _White._ Venus's Looking Glass, Priest's Schizanthus, Sweet-scented Stevia, White Evening Primrose. _Yellow._ Drummond's Coreopsis, *New Dark Coreopsis, Golden Hawkweed, Dracopis amplexicaulis, Drummond's Primrose, Cladanthus arabicus, Peroffsky's Erysimum. _Rose._ Drummond's Phlox, Rodanthe, Rose-colored Nonea, Clarkia rosea, Silene Tenorei, Silene armeria. _Red._ Crimson Coxcomb, Silene pendula, Crimson Dew Plant, _tr._ _Scarlet._ Cacalia coccinea, Flos Adonis, Scarlet Zinnia, Mexican Cuphea. _Lilac and Purple._ Clarkia elegans, Clarkia pulchella, *Purple Candytuft, *Purple Petunia, _tr._, *Crimson Candytuft, Double Purple Jacobaea, Leptosiphon androsaceus, all the varieties of Schizanthus, Veined Verbena, _tr._, *Purple eternal Flower. _Blue._ Ageratum Mexicanum, *Gilia capitata, Spanish Nigella, Blue Eutoca, Dwarf Convolvulus, Didiscus coeruleus. _Lilac, Purple_, or _Blue and White._ Collinsia bicolor, Gilia tricolor. _Very Dark._ Lotus Jacobaeus, Salpiglossis, Scabious. _Colors varying._ German Aster, Balsam, Rocket Larkspur, Ten-week Stock, Poppy. EIGHTEEN INCHES TO TWO FEET. _White._ *White Petunia, _tr._, White Clarkia, Double White Jacobaea,