fcerbaceous plants. 3^5 



ing, four feet high, flower-heads pale blue. A. spectabHis, 

 height two feet : leaves lanceolate, nearly amplexicaul, head- 

 beautiful blue. A. turbineUus, leaves small, lanceolate. 

 stem Blender, graceful, two or three feet high, heads 

 mauve. Besides these the little white flowering A. eri- 

 eoides is sometimes grown. 



Fleabane, Erigeron. — Generally inferior to the asters as 

 ornamental plants. K. vJjpmum is a neat and attractive 

 rock-plant with bluish flowers. E. awantiacits, showy; 

 leaves oblong, flower-heads large, of a bright orange-color. 

 Height seldom a foot. E. qpeciosum, a pretty American 

 plant a foot high, with oblong leaves and lari_'e heads of 

 lilac flowers: disk yellow. In rockeries or 1 .orders. Or- 

 dinary, garden soil. 



Swan-River Daisy, Brachychome iberidifolia. — A very 

 handsome annual cultivated iu beds and borders. It forms 

 a nice and compact bushy plant about a foot high and 

 equally broad, covered all summer with innumerable deep 

 blue flower-heads : leaves pinnately parted, small. Raised 

 from seeds. Sown on the spot in early spring. 



Daisy, BeUis perennis. — The true European daisy is a 

 very small plant with mats of obovate-spathulate leaves 

 close to the ground, and simple leafless scapes four or five 

 iuches high, bearing oue solitary head of white flowers 

 suffused with rose. The double white or pink varieties 

 are the most desirable for edging beds and borders. They 

 are very Auriferous and should be grown in every garden. 

 They may also be naturalized in lawns, but the single form 

 should be excluded as it spreads and becomes a weed. 

 Increased by means of seeds or division. 



