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more, all desirable and well 

 worth planting. Some of them, 

 especially single ones such as 

 H. orgyralis, H. mollis and 

 H. Woolley Dod, when once 

 planted are likely to overrun 

 everything in time and even 

 establish themselves in a ma- 

 cadam driveway. But they 

 are easily kept in place and 

 during the late Summer 

 months will become masses of 

 yellow blossoms. 



If you plant them along 

 a fence and they once become 

 established you will always 

 have stock to sell from in 

 Spring and Fall, and flowers 

 to cut. Should any of your 

 customers want something for 

 mass planting or naturalizing, 

 you couldn't recommend any- 

 thing better. 



H. multiflorus flore pleno 

 is the hardy double Sunflower 

 and while not as rank a 



grower nor, in a cut state, as graceful as the single sorts, it is well 

 to carry a stock for those who handle perennials. 



Among the annual varieties there are some small, single-flower- 

 ing sorts which, when sown outdoors in May, will provide masses 

 of desirable cut flowers, fine for decorative work, during July. 



Fig. 176. HELIANTHUS MULTIFLORUS. Five- 



and six-ft. steins of this hardy Sunflower, 



loaded with their golden-yellow flowers, 



are fine for decorative work 



HELIOPSIS 

 (ORANGE SUNFLOWER) 



Heliopsis Pitcheriana always attracts attention when in bloom 

 in the hardy border. Its large, Daisy- or Sunflower-shaped blossoms 

 of deep orange color make it so, and the fact that it flowers in August 

 is another good feature; besides it lasts for days when cut. If you 

 handle hardy plants include it in your list. It is easily grown from 

 seed which, if sown during the Summer, will give you flowering 

 plants the following year. Moreover, the plants don't need pro- 

 tection over Winter. H. scabra excelsa is a fine, pure yellow, semi- 

 double border plant, especially when used in groups or masses. 

 It grows fully three feet tall and blooms in August. 



