FOOTNOTES:
[A] A tender perennial, flowering the first year from seed sown early.
[B] A biennial, flowering the first year from seed sown early.
CHAPTER IV
Flowers that Live Through Two Years
In all places then, and in all seasons,
Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings,
Teaching us by most persuasive reasons,
How akin they are to human things.
—Longfellow.
Between the flowers that we have to plant every year,—the annuals,—and those that after once being started continue to greet us summer after summer,—the perennials,—comes a little group of old favorites that has to be planted one summer (and then generally protected from the cold), in order to bring them to their full beauty the second year. And as few of them self-sow, it is necessary to plant and carry over every season.