68 Addisonia 



of cultivation. It appears to best advantage at the edge of the 

 forest, where it receives plenty of sun and still enjoys the protection 

 of the trees. Here it grows tall, branches freely, and produces a 

 correspondingly larger number of its showy heads. Its coarse 

 foliage and stiff heads make it poorly adapted for the small garden, 

 but it can be used to advantage against a background of shrubbery 

 in large plantings. In the latitude of New York the flowers appear 

 in July and August. 



Specimens of this plant are growing in the collections of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, and it was from one of these that our 

 illustration was drawn. 



H. A. Gleason. 



Explanation of Plate. Fig. l. — Flowering stem. Fig. 2. — Lower leaf. 

 Fig. 3. — Disk-flower and scale, side view, X 3. Fig. 4. — Disk-flower, X 3. 



