HELICHRYSUM. 
10 inches or so, each shoot ending in early summer with a loose head of 
rather large white flowers (a red-blossomed one has been found at 
Fontainebleau). It likes a warm situation, and in nature is not fond 
of lime. In spite of the cold that it is frequently called on to endure, 
the common H. Yuberaria of the Riviera is not always safely resistent 
to our damper conditions ; it makes mats on the ground, of corrugated 
broad glossy leaves, from which rise up short spikes of large yellow 
blossoms. #H. obtusum is a yet neater small plant—a hoary tuft some 
2 or 3 inches high, set with big white cups; and H. lunulatum makes 
especially delightful little bushes some 6 or 9 inches tall, the branches 
thick with oval-pointed grey leaves, and ending in a quantity of small 
clear-yellow flowers, which can always be told from usurpers of the 
name by a crescent-shaped blotch of deep gold at the base of each petal. 
This species belongs to the Mediterranean coast, and is extremely 
rare on the Col de Tenda, where it sometimes takes on almost a spiny 
look with the abundance of its older dead twigs. Of the garden 
developments achieved by H. roseum, H. grandiflorum, H. mutabile, 
H. apenninum, H. sanguineum, H. vulgare, H. rhodanthum, H. 
purpureum, H. coccineum, H. croceum, and a long line of etceteras, 
are not these faithfully and flamingly dealt with in all catalogues ? 
There is no end to the variety of them, no end to their names, neither 
Alpha nor Omega to the dazzling and diverse beauty of their profuse 
flowers, scattered over the low masses all the summer through, and 
fillmg even the worst places of the sunny garden with a glory not to 
be equalled by the best. They can be multiplied to any extent by 
cuttings, and seed also should be raised in the best strains, in the 
hope of even finer varieties yet to arise. Helianthemum does not 
seem to have the secret of ugliness, and even the double forms, 
H, Balgreen, H. coccineum, H, plenum, &c., have their place, though they 
cannot cope in beauty with such grey-leaved and be-rosed lovelinesses 
as H. roseum, or the even neater tuffets of H. amabile, perhaps the most 
dainty and brilliant of all, alike in its concise hoary bushes of 6 inches 
high, and in the prodigal show of its especially flaming rose-pink 
flowers. Many of the larger forms, it should be noted, have a tendency 
to get leggy (like Lavender) if left too long alone ; and should therefore, 
by those who value tidiness, be cut back as far as you please in spring, 
when they will accordingly bush forth again in green, and form masses 
as tight or loose as your pruning has desired, quite restored to their 
pristine prodigality of blossom. 
Helichrysum.—The Sungolds, or Everlastings, offer us various 
low-growing beauties for the garden, but all are more or less woolly, 
and all are more or less tender or miffy. They should be grown in 
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