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mixed-border plant, and succeeds well in any ordinary garden- 

 soil. Propagate by division. 



Coreopsis {Bug-Nut). — A considerable genus, but of which 

 there are few in cultivation — a fact the less to be regretted, be-, 

 cause they are nearly all the same in colour ; and their foliage 

 being only of secondary account in estimating their value as 

 ornamental plants, one or two representatives will be considered 

 quite enough in any but botanical collections. They succeed 

 in any good garden-soil, and are increased by division, and are 

 fitted only for border or shrubbery decoration. 



C. auriculata (Ea?'ed-kaved Bug-Nut). — A rather tall plant, 

 and somewhat straggling, producing 3-lobed root-leaves, the 

 lateral lobes, suggesting the fitness of the specific name, being 

 comparatively small, and bearing some such relationship to the 

 central lobe as the ears of an animal to the head. The stem- 

 leaves are undivided and thinly scattered. The flower-heads 

 are large, with a spreading yellow ray, appearing from August 

 to October. Native of North America. 



C. lanceolata, syn. C. gidiJLdAfLoi2i>{La?ice-lecwed Bug-Nut). — In 

 this species the root and stem leaves are the same in shape, but 

 the latter diminish in size as they ascend the stems, and all are 

 slightly fringed with hairs. The flowers are yellow, of the same 

 character as the last, and appear in summer and autumn. 

 Native of North America. 



C. tenuifolia (Fifie-kaved Bug-Nut). — A very distinct plant 

 from either of the two preceding. It grows about 2 feet high, with 

 weak rather straggling stems, and produces much and finely- 

 divided leaves and bright yellow flower-heads, rather smaller 

 but not less handsome than the last. Flowers in July and 

 August. Native of North America. 



Doronicum {Leopaj-d's-Bajie). — This is not an unfamiliar 

 genus, the Great Leopard's-Bane being often seen in cottage 

 gardens and in woods in the neighbourhood of larger ones in 

 many parts of Britain. It is usually regarded as a weedy or 

 coarse genus ; and rather coarse it undoubtedly is, and has some 

 of the encroaching intrusive habits of weeds ; but the species 

 are all more or less showy, and their robust accommodating 

 nature renders them most useful for introducing colour into 

 woodlands where that is an object. They thrive in any soil, 

 wet or dry, and increase and extend themselves irresistibly in 

 any position. I have seen the Great Leopard's-Bane clothing 

 steep banks in shady woods with very little soil to hold by ; 

 and such as there was, was in a state of perpetual ooze, and it 

 grew and flowered as well there as it did elsewhere in better 

 circumstances. They are spring-flowering plants, and on this 



