558 GARDEN PLANTS; PART II. 



then they will put forth their handsome dark-purple knob-like 

 heads of blossom during the Cold season. 



ASTEBAQIL2E. 



Eupatorium. 



1. Eu. asperum. A small herbaceous plant, tolerably pleasing 

 when in blossom with its numerous groundsel-like dull-purple 

 flowers. 



2. Eu. foeniculaceum. A plant somewhat similar to the pre- 

 ceding, but of smaller habit, and with pale-lavender smaller 

 flowers. 



3. Eu. odoratum. A very pretty small shrub, each of its blos- 

 soming rods having in September and October a delicate feather- 

 grass-like appearance, with exceedingly small, densely numerous, 

 very fragrant flowers. Propagated by division of root, or by 

 seed. 



4. Eu. sp. A small herbaceous pot-plant, unnamed, lately 

 introduced into the Calcutta Botanical Gardens ; bears in March 

 large handsome trusses of compactly-set, large, groundsel-like, 

 lavender flowers ; when in full blossom a very beautiful plant. 



Aster. 



1. A. annuus. A small plant; produces, in May small un- 

 pretending, white daisy-like flowers ; of little merit. 



2. A. sp. Name un-ascertained ; an exceedingly common plant 

 in the Calcutta Gardens; strongly resembles that figured in 

 Curtis as A. Sikhimensis ; very pretty when in blossom, as it 

 nearly always is during the Hot months, with flowers somewhat 

 like those of the Michaelmas Daisy, but much larger and finer, 

 borne in large heads about a foot from the ground. Easily 

 multiplied by division of the roots. 



Bellis. 



B. perennis. DAISY. Plants of the Daisy, raised from seed 

 sown in October, will come into blossom the same season. The 

 few that prove double should be preserved, and the rest thrown 



