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winter to throw up flower-stems, if the season is open and 

 mild ; cold does not seem to aflfect it. Propagated by di- 

 viding the roots in the spring. 



HEMEROCALLIS.-Day Lily. 



[Name derived from Greek v\ ords, signifying beautiful and day.] 



It is an ornamental genus of hardy perennials of tlie 

 easiest cultivation, and suitable for the borders. 



Hemerocallis flava. — Yellow Day Lily. — Has a brilliant 

 yellow lily-shaped flower, in June, two feet high ; leaves 

 long, linear, keeled. 



H. flllva. — Copper-colored Day Lily. — An old inhabi- 

 tant of the flower-garden ; in flower most of the season ; 

 four feet high ; flower, yellowish copper-color; leaves like 

 the last, but much larger. 



HEPATICA.— LlYER-WORT. 



[Hepatica—ivora Greek words, signifying belonging to the liver, tiie three 

 lobes of the leaves having been compared to tiie lobes of tlie liver.] 



Hepatica triloba* — This is a great favorite in the flow- 

 er-border, on account of its abundant blossoms and great 

 variety of colors and shades. It is a hardy perennial, 

 with varieties of double-red, blue, and white. This 

 charming early flower is found in its single state both red, 

 blue, and wliite, in great abundance in old woods and 

 copses, where it embellishes the ground Avith its clumps 

 of numerous flowers. About the latter end of April and 

 beginning of May they appear before the new leaves, 

 which show themselves only when the flower is gone, but 

 the old leaves remain through the winter. The leaves are 

 divided into three lobes {triloba) of a brownish-green 

 color, by which the plant may be known in the summer. 



