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

 height two feet ; leaves lanceolate, nearly amplexicaul, heads 

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

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

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

 coides is sometimes grown. 



Fleabane, Erigeron. Generally inferior to the asters as 

 ornamental plants. E. alpinum is a neat and attractive 

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

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

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

 plant a foot high, with oblong leaves and large heads of 

 lilac flowers; disk yellow. In rockeries or borders. Or- 

 dinary, garden soil. 



Swan-River Daisy, Brachychome iberidifolia. A very 

 handsome annual cultivated in 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, Bellis 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 

 inches high, bearing one 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 floriferous 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. 



