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shining yellow. Scarcely any plant produces a greater degree 

 of splendor than this ; when the full sun is upon it, it makes a 

 complete blaze of color. It is a most suitable plant for pro- 

 ducing a distant effect. When it is planted out in a bed, it 

 requires a considerable number of sticks for support, or the 

 weak branches will be liable to lie close to the ground, and 

 then the bloom is not so fine. If planted in single patches, 

 they should have several sticks placed round, and a string 

 fastened, so as to keep the flower-stalks tolerably erect; by this 

 attention a neat and handsome effect will be given. I adopt 

 the use of cross-strings, as well as a circular one, by which 

 m'eans I have the shoots regularly disposed. 



Chriseis crocea. Saffron-colored Californian Poppy. The 

 principal difference between this and the variety now well 

 known here, is in the color this being a dark, bright saffron- 

 color ; the botanical difference is, that in this the point of the 

 calyx is longer, and the apex or end of the peduncle (flower- 

 stem) is more expanded. It is, like the other, a hardy annual 

 or biennial. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



Chrysanthemum coronaria. Garden Chrysanthemum. 

 Handsome hardy annuals, one variety with white, and another 

 with yellow flowers ; two feet or more high; in bloom from July 

 to October. Sow the seed in April. The double varieties 

 alone are worth cultivation. The fine double varieties are 

 propagated by cutting. 



Chrysanthemum cavinatum, or tricolor. Tricolored Chrysan- 

 themum. A hardy annual from Barbary, one and a half or two 

 feet, high, in flower from July to October. Disk of the flower 

 purplish-brown, inner circle of the rays yellow, margined with 

 white ; very pretty. 



COIX. 



Coix lachryma. Job's Tear. A kind of tropical grass 

 from the East Indies. It is called Job's Tear on account of th 



