THE FLOWERS 



In old meadows which have been neglected 

 until, in country parlance, they have become 

 " run out," we find dazzling exhibitions of sev- 

 eral varieties of Rudbeckia. The farmer looks 

 upon this as a pest, and sees no more beauty 

 in it than in the summer daisy, but we of a 

 different stand-point cannot help admiring the 

 brilliant blossoms, more especially those of the 

 cone-flower type with tall brown centres. Re- 

 cently a new sort of Rudbeckia has been intro- 

 duced into our gardens under the fanciful 

 name of " Golden Glow." It bears very little 

 resemblance to the ordinary Rudbeckia. Its 

 flowers are large and double, and so like those 

 of the popular decorative Dahlia that they are 

 often mistaken for them. The cone has been 

 cultivated out of them entirely, if they ever had 

 one. They are magnificent autumn bloomers, 

 furnishing hundreds of flowers of the richest 

 golden yellow from each well-established plant. 

 It is so entirely hardy, and of such a sturdy, 

 rambling character, that if it could once get a 

 foothold in the meadows it would soon make 

 itself quite at home. 



Along in September one finds great clumps 

 of Vervain, with multitudes of small sessile 

 flowers in panicled spikes, both blue and white, 



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