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Pyrethbum (Painted Daisy). 



This is a very hardy plant, producing a charming flower of aster form, 

 often striped and penciled in great beauty. It has reddish tints mingling 

 with other colors. The flower is about an inch to one and one-half inches 

 in diameter. It comes on early and is usually in full bloom on Decoration 

 Day. It makes a very attractive bouquet, not bulky but delicate and 

 charming. There are quite a number of varieties. They are generally 

 single, but in recent years double forms have been introduced. 



There are annual varieties. One is called Golden Feather, which is 

 popular for borders. We do not think much of it however. It becomes 

 as persistent as a weed and we treat it like one. 



Uliginosum is a noble, tall growing plant covered with large white 

 flowers with a golden center. It is in bloom about the time frost comes 

 when it does its best to cheer the world up as it enters into the cold. 



PROPAGATION. 



You can get the seeds of some reliable firm and raise your own, or 

 you can get plants already grown and so be a year ahead. The roots 

 keep increasing year by year. With us they have been very hardy though 

 it would do no harm to mulch them. Only do not put on enough to suffo- 

 cate them. 



Sow the seed early in the spring and you get good strong plants which 

 will flower the next season. 



Coreopsis. 



This is a showy perennial with graceful long-stemmed flowers, well 

 suited for bouquets, and is one of the garden's great forces in yellows. 



The name is from koris (a bug), and opsis (like); like a bug. A 

 botanist must have a vivid imagination sometimes, especially in this 

 instance, to see any resemblance between the two. 



Coreopsis Ariculata is a showy flower, growing two to three feet tall. 



Grandiflora is probably the best. It is quite hardy and produces great 

 abundance of golden flowers which continue a long time in bloom. The 

 plant has great vigor and it is hardy, probably from the fact that great 

 tufts of foliage fall down and cover the roots completely. This is na- 

 ture's protection for many plants — a sort of automatic mulching. They 

 flower generally in July. They are very welcome at this time of the 

 season. The flowers are solitary; that is, they gi-ow singly on a long 

 stem. As a general thing, the value of a flower depends on the length and 

 strength of the stems and also on the keeping qualities. 



Lanceolata is also a beautiful yellow flower, but not near as large as 

 Grandiflora. The flower is a little more delicate in structure and it does 

 not continue quite as long in blooming. 



Coreopsis Senifolia sometimes grows six feet tall and flowers in 

 August. 



Coreopsis Verticlllata grows about two feet tall and flowers from .Tune 



