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cloisonne vase, the slanting afternoon sun stream- 

 ing full upon them an October sunset in the 

 room. There should be a shelf of vases to 

 choose from for arranging flowers tall, flat, 

 large, and small ; the floral picture, too, calls for 

 its appropriate frame. 



Helianthus tuberosus, the Jerusalem arti- 

 choke, shows a fine mass of yellow far above 

 one's head, an erect, vigorous grower, with 

 large, dark- green leaves and lively flowers. In 

 its habit, and the size and brilliancy of its blos- 

 soms, its surpasses H. gtganteus. It comes late 

 into blossom, and defies the frost. This, with 

 many of the taller species, as has been stated 

 before, looks best in the distance naturalized in 

 large masses. They are admirably suited to 

 low situations, where they can be looked down 

 upon from an elevation. The tubers of H. 

 tuberosus would be largely used as an esculent, 

 if we had not the potato. They have a flavor 

 somewhat like salsify or celery-turnip, and it 

 seems highly probable that they were exten- 

 sively employed by the aborigines as an article 

 of food. 



Very brilliant are the shining berries of many 

 of the ornamental shrubs at this season. The 

 large fruit of the Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas- 

 cula}, and the corals of -the bush cranberry 



