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(pink), Midge (white), Fred. Walz (pale 

 pink), Golden Gate (bright yellow), Mutual 

 Friend (white), W. H. Chadwick (yellow), 

 Defender (dark crimson). Mile. Marie Hoste 

 (white), Fig. 2500, and W. H. Lincoln 

 (bright yellow). The latter is an old variety, 

 but still one of the best and latest, and is of 

 specially good habit of growth and flower- 

 ing character for a window or conservatory. 

 Amongst reflexed varieties for the win- 

 dow, Mrs. L. Canning (white), Fig. 2501, and 

 Miss Elma O'Farrell will give good satis- 

 faction. The latter is a late, large flower- 

 ing variety of a peculiar shade of salmon 

 rose, very odd and pretty. 



In writing this article on these popular 

 a.utumn flowers, many perhaps equally good 

 varieties both new and old, have of neces- 

 sity in so short a list to be omitted. But 

 those that are mentioned have proved to be 

 varieties that have invariably, from year to 

 year, shown good and attractive points, un- 

 der conditions that many other varieties 

 perhaps more attractive in many ways, have 

 proved under test to be partial failures. 



In a future paper I hope to have some- 

 thing to say on the culture and treatment of 

 the chrysanthemum from the time the old 

 plants are out of flower until flowering time 

 again. 



HELIANTHUS MULTIFLORUS. 



OUR engraving is a good representation, 

 minus the color, of the Helianthus 

 multiflorus, as grown this summer at Maple- 

 hurst. We have for some years past been 

 .charmed with the Golden Glow Rudbeckia, 

 but this comes a little later in the season, and 

 when grown in clumps has a most charming 

 effect, quite equal, if not superior to the for- 

 mer. It is not quite so tall, grows more 

 compact, and its aster-like flowers are more 

 double and striking in effect. 



The sunflower family to which it belongs 

 contains, in addition to the common annual 

 sunflower, about fifteen hardy herbaceous 

 perennial plants, and to one of these our 

 subject belongs, viz., H. decapetalus, a 

 species which is found in most soils from 

 Quebec to Georgia. Under cultivation sev- 

 eral beautiful garden varieties have been 

 produced, some of them with quilled florets, 

 like a cactus dahlia, and, altogether, the mul- 

 tiflorus varieties are the most popular of all 

 perennial sunflowers. They are quite dwarf 

 compared with the annual sunflowers, reach- 

 ing only a height of from two to five feet. 

 In our opinion, no collection of hardy per- 

 ennials should omit Helianthus multiflorus 

 flore pleno, and, to get the best effect, we 



would advise the planting of them in clumps 

 of a half dozen in the perennial border. 



Fig. 2503. Helianthus Multiflorus 



