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open. Besides the common evening primrose 

 (CEnothera biennts), a troublesome weed in 

 many States, there are numerous other species 

 to which garden space may well be accorded. 

 The larger flowered variety of biennis, called 

 .grandiflora, is to be preferred to the type, (E. 

 fruticosa, and its varieties grow from one and a 

 half to three feet high, and are abundant bloom- 

 ers with smaller, bright-yellow flowers. CE. 

 speciosa, a fine species of Arkansas and Texas, 

 and a dvvarfer form, bears numerous large white 

 blossoms passing to rose. CE. Missouriensis, a 

 Western species remarkable for the size of its 

 flowers and fruit, is a small-growing form well 

 adapted for rock-work, with vivid golden-yellow 

 blooms appearing from July to October. The 

 evening primrose is far better known in English 

 gardens than it is at home. Its color, fragrance, 

 and free-flowering habit render it a desirable 

 plant of late summer, when it is grown in rich 

 soil. Only some of the species are nocturnal, 

 though most of them are more odorous, and 

 open more fully in the evening. All the tall- 

 growing kinds seed freely, and are readily grown 

 from seed. 



August and September are the months of the 

 sunflowers, or Heltanthece, named from helios, 

 the sun, and anthos, a flower, from the errone 



