herbaceous plants. 3-: 



Great Oxeye Daisy, Pyrethmm idiginomm. — This is a 

 tall and graceful plant about three feet high, with lanceolate, 

 coarsely dentate leaves, and heads of large white ray-florets 

 and yellow disk. Fine for margins of streams and lakes in 

 rich ground. 



Gaillardia, GaiUardia aristata. — A very floriferous plant 

 about a foot high, with lanceolate leaves and large yellow 

 flower-heads. The variety grandiflora is the 

 most common in gardens ; it has the lower half 

 of the ray-florets of a reddish color. G. pulch Ma 

 is a very showy annual of a similar habit but 

 with bright crimson ray-florets tipped with 

 yellow. Both are excellent for dry ground in 

 sunny positions where they flower all summer. 



Marigold, Calendula officinalis. — A com- 

 pact, floriferous annual with obloug-obovate 

 leaves and bright yellow heads of flowers, 

 single or double, all summer. 



Compass-Plan^ Silphiv/m laciniatnim A. 



rather coarse perennial, with pinnatirid leaves and tall leafy 

 flowering stems bearing a few large heads of yellow flowers 



Dahlia, Dahlia variabilis. — Well known border plant 

 with fleshy roots and pinnate leaves. Flowers double or 

 single, of all colors. There are some dwarf and small flow- 

 ering varieties. The cactus dahlia (D. Jua/rezii) is one of 

 the most desirable kinds, with blight scarlet-crimson flowers 

 similar in shape to some kinds of cactus. Planted in beds or 

 borders in spring. Roots stored in winter. 



Thickweed, Coreopsis. — Exceedingly showy and florifer- 

 ous annual or perennial plants for sunny positions in borders 



FIG. 144.- 



GAILLARDIA. 



