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summer. Stems branching, two feet high or more ; leaves 

 broadly ovate or heart-shaped. Very floriferous; ornamen- 

 tal in beds or borders. 



Sand Vervain, Abronia umbellaia. A slender, trailing 

 plant grown as an annual in rockeries or for filling vases 

 and window-boxes; leaves ovate-lanceolate, flowers umbel- 

 late, rosy-purple. May be grown for beds in sandy ground 

 and can be sown on the place. 



THE AMARANTH FAMILY. 



Amaranth, Amaranthus. Many of these are coarse and 

 weedy in appearance though rather showy. They fit in in 

 no natural scenery that can be produced in a garden and 

 are out of place except in a border. The following are the 

 most common : A. caudatus, prince's feather, tall with red 

 flowers in drooping panicles. A. melancholicus ruber, or 

 love-lies-bleeding, almost similar, entirely red. Sown in the 

 open ground early in spring. 



Cockscomb, Celosia cristata. Annual, with erect, close, 

 pyramidal panicles of white, yellow, rosy-red or crimson 

 flowers. There are many varieties of which some are dwarf, 

 with an inflorescence widely differing from that of the 

 original form. Often grown in beds and borders and raised 

 annually from seeds. 



THE BUCKWHEAT FAMILY. 



Japanese Knot-weed, Polygonum cuspidatum. A tall 

 and graceful perennial growing five or six feet high, more 

 or less. Stems slender and very leafy, producing ample, 

 feathery panicles of white flowers in the axils of the upper 



