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 CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



(ANNUAL.) 



Of this beautiful variety of garden annuals there are three 

 of rather prepossessing appearance. The one called the 

 " Ox-Eye-Daisy " throws up a stem three feet high. The 

 leaves are smooth and of a deep green color ; the flowers 

 solitary and terminate, stem branching, generally flowering 

 from May to August, seeding freely, and will grow in any 

 garden soil ; the seeds should be sown in April. " The 

 Corn Marigold" is another variety of a more dwarf nature 

 than the other, striated and branching. The leaves are al- 

 ternate and varying in shape ; the branches terminate with 

 large yellow flowers. Peduncles upright, calyx convex, 

 scales ovate, glaucous, the inner ones with large mem- 

 branous edges. This plant is also known as the Golden 

 Corn Flower, Yellow Bottle, <J-c., which arises from its beau- 

 tiful golden color and brilliancy of appearance in the flower 

 garden. Then we have the Tricolor, a native of Morocco, 

 which also grows readily from seed or by cuttings, and will 

 flower from July to October. 



When this variety was first introduced into Europe, in 

 1 796, it was treated as a tender stove plant, but like the 

 others it is now treated as a half hardy annual, and may 

 be recommended as a fine garden variety of flowering plants 

 of easy culture in any garden soil, and of showy appearance. 



