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Europe. Leaves lanceolate, mostly tufted at the root. 

 Flowers ou almost leafless scapes seldom a foot high. 

 Heads large, golden-yellow or orange, several together. 

 Fiue for rockeries or on high banks. Will grow well in 

 light or gravelly soil. Flowers in summer. 



Leopard's Bane, Doronicum Cauca&icv/m. — A very 

 pretty spring-flowering plant, tine for rockeries. Leaves on 

 long petioles, cordate. Stems mostly simple, with a few 

 large heads of bright yellow flowers. Desirable for grow- 

 ing in sunny positions. 



Goldenrod, Solidago. — There are many showy species 

 of goldenrod, but as they are so common all over the 

 country there is little need of their cultivation. The most 

 beautiful are : S. Oanadense, with ample panicles on stems 

 several feet high ; S. laneeolata, a bushy, branching plant 

 with flat corymbs of small yellow heads ; S. serotina 

 flowers in pyramidal panicles on stems two or three feet 

 high ; 8. speciosa, with large flower-heads in thyreoid pani- 

 cles, stems from three to six feet high ; S. virga-aurea, 

 somewhat branched, heads racemose. 



Chinese Aster, OaUistephus Cliinensis. — Favorite border 

 or bedding plants, of which there are many strains, some 

 tall, others very dwarf, some bushy, others slender, bearing 

 only a few large heads of flowers. All cultivated kinds 

 are double; some unite two colors in one head, white and 

 blue, white and purple or lilac, and so on ; others are one- 

 colored, white, pale rose, purple-crimson, and purplish-blue. 

 They should be raised in boxes or pots in a cool frame and 

 planted out late in spring. They require frequent water- 

 ings in dry summers in order to prevent them from flower- 



