A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at SchoolBeecher, Catharine Esther
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A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Home economics
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,
Love in a Mist.
_Red._ *Lavatera trimestris, Red Zinnia, Malva miniata.
_Lilac and Purple._ Globe Amaranthus, Purple Sweet Sultan, Sweet
Scabious, Purple Zinnia, Prince's Feather, Large Blue Lupine, *Catchfly.
TWO FEET AND UPWARDS.
_White._ Winged Ammobium, *White Lavatera, White Sweet Sultan, *New
White Eternal Flower, White Helicrysum, *White Larkspur.
_Yellow._ Golden Bartonia, *Golden Coreopsis, Yellow Sweet Sultan,
African Marigold, Yellow Argemone, French Marigold, Yellow Coxcomb,
Yellow Hibiscus.
The Malope grandiflora and the Cleome are fine tall annuals.
_Climbing Plants._
The following are the most beautiful _annual climbers_: Crimson, and
White, Cypress Vine; White, and Buff, Thunbergia; Scarlet Flowering
Bean; Hyacinth Bean Loasa; Morning Glory; Crimson, and Spotted,
Nasturtium; Balloon Vine; Sweet Pea; Tangier Pea; Lord Anson's Pea;
Climbing Cobaea; Pink, and White, Maurandia.
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