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Excerpt from Annual and Biennial Garden Plants, Their Value and Uses, 1911: With Full Instructions for Their Cultivation Annuals and Biennials are plants with limited lives. An Annual is a plant that is raised from seed, which germinates, grows, comes to maturity, seeds and dies (irrespective of frost), all within the period of a year. In Nature these seeds are scattered broadcast in the Autumn by the winds and other agents, and quickly germinate, thus reproducing themselves year by year. Hardy Annuals are those which need no protection. There are numerous Hardy Annuals that will stand a great amount of frost and bad weather, if, as Nature dictates, they are sown in the Autumn. But this is not the common practice. For one thing a gardener usually is far too busy at that time of the year, digging, sweeping up leaves, potting up geraniums, attending to the glass-houses and frames and many other duties, that he is not justified in spending his time in sowing Annuals when he considers the Spring will do as well. Neither does he wish to risk the Winter when he has enemies enough to contend with. So, in spite of Nature's teachings, he sows in early Spring, when he considers the risks are over. Nevertheless, Autumn-sown plants are the best and strongest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.