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gle. Primrose is a lovely light-yellow flower with a 

 dark center ; the flowers are borne along the tall stem 

 from within a couple of feet of the ground. Of the 

 wild species the commonest is H. giganteus. In the 

 pine district of New Jersey and southward is another 

 common variety with long, narrow leaves and small 

 flowers with dark centers, named H. angustifolius. 

 H. occidentalis is a Western variety with flowers 

 whose disks as well as rays are yellow, and leaves 

 which are broad below, but quite narrow above, on a 

 stalk not over three feet high. II. heteroj)hyUus is a 

 Southern variety, which has flowers with dark purple- 

 brown disks and golden rays, and leaves oval and 

 lance-shaped. The flowers are very few and are borne 

 on long stems. Maximilian's Sunflower is a AVestern 

 variety under cultivation, whose small flower has a 

 yellow disk. II. annuus and II. argojjkylhis are an- 

 nuals ; all the other wild varieties are perennials. The 

 sunflower blooms in late summer and in September. 



Snow on the mountain, which is a 

 Snow 

 on the Mountain, beautiful plant growmg wild east and 



Euphorbia west of the Mississippi, is rapidly 



marqliiatti. . . ™ i 



coming in lavor as a garden orna- 

 ment. It grows about two feet high, and its oval 

 leaves are broadly white-margined ; those at the top 

 of the plant are nearly if not altogether white ; it is 

 an annual which flowers in late summer. The flower 



