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cloudy weather. Two of these, the Grass-leaved, and the 

 Shrubby, are perennial plants : the others are annual. 



The Garden Marygold, and the Great, the Little, and 

 the Naked-stalked Cape Marygolds, may be sown in April 

 or in March ; the first singly ; the others, four of them, or 

 five, in a pot ten inches wide. If they all come up, the two 

 most promising should be preserved, and the rest rooted 

 out ; they will not bear transplanting. The Grass-leaved 

 kind is best raised by a gardener ; and should be housed, 

 but not kept too warm, in the winter. The Shrubby Mary- 

 gold is increased by cuttings planted in any of the summer 

 months, and shaded from the sun until they have taken 

 firm root, which will be in five or six weeks. In winter, 

 this must be treated as the last. 



The Marygolds must not be suffered to remain dry, but 

 must have but little water at a time. Most of them flower 

 from June till August; but the Garden Marygold con- 

 tinues in bloom till stopped by the frost. 



' ' Open afresh your round of starry folds, 

 Ye ardent mary golds ! 

 Dry up the moisture of your golden lids ; 

 For great Apollo Jbids 



That in these days your praises shall be sung 

 On many harps, which he has lately strung ; 

 And when again your dewiness he kisses, 

 Tell him, I have you in my world of blisses : 

 So haply when I rove in some far vale, 

 His mighty voice may come upon the gale." 



KEATS. 



It has been observed that these flowers were formerly 

 called Golds, a name by which Chaucer repeatedly men- 

 tions them : we are told, in the glossary, that Gold means 

 a Sun-flower, but it has been remarked that this title also 

 was formerly bestowed upon the Marygold : and the fol- 

 lowing passage is an additional argument for supposing 



