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the foliage abundant, and the plant of elegant 

 habit. 



Bupthalmum cordifotium, the European 

 ox-eye, is a stout perennial with large leaves, 

 that opens its yellow blossoms the latter part of 

 June, soon after Anthemis tinctoria. It is far 

 too coarse to take the place of Coreopsis lanceo- 

 lata, and is most suitable for the rear, or the 

 wild garden. 



Many of the Centaureas, the plant which 

 cured the foot of Chiron, wounded by the arrow 

 of Hercules, are valuable border-plants. The 

 large blue flowers of C. montana appear early in 

 June. This is not so neat in habit as some ; but 

 its blue is beautiful and the flowers charming in 

 the cut stage. The flower of C. Ruthentica ap- 

 pears on a very tall stalk, rising high above the 

 somewhat sparse foliage, shortly after the ap- 

 pearance of C. montana. The single blooms are 

 large, but they only hold their color and fresh- 

 ness for a day or two. C. macrocephala is a 

 robust, thick-foliaged species, with large bright- 

 yellow flower-heads ; and, while showy as a 

 border-plant, it is not as fine as C. glastifolia y a 

 more elegant plant, which succeeds it. I think 

 this the finest of the large species, crowned in 

 July with a perfect mass of golden bloom on 

 branched stalks four to five feet high. The sil- 



