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Europe. Leaves lanceolate, mostly tufted at the root. 

 Flowers on almost leafless scapes seldom a foot high. 

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

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

 light or gravelly soil. Flowers in summer. 



Leopard's Bane, Doronicum Caucasicum. A very 

 pretty spring-flowering plant, fine 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 : 8. Canadense, with ample panicles on stems 

 several feet high ; 8. lanceolata, a bushy, branching plant 

 with flat corymbs of small yellow heads ; 8. serotina 

 flowers in pyramidal panicles on stems two or three feet 

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

 cles, stems from three to six feet high ; 8. virga-aurea, 

 somewhat branched, heads racemose. 



Chinese Aster, Gallistephus Ohinensis. 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- 



