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cea, and Coreopsis, mostly perennials in the style 

 of Helianthus. From all of these we have a 

 great mass of yellow autumnal blossom not to 

 be dispensed with. All the sunflowers grow 

 well in any common garden soil, most of them 

 being easily raised from seed, while many read- 

 ily form hybrids. 



Among the earliest is the showy ox-eye (He- 

 liopsis Icevis), frequent along streams and banks, 

 where its numerous yellow flowers form vast 

 golden streamers during August, conspicuous 

 from a great distance. At nearly the same time 

 Helianthus di-varicatus peoples the thickets 

 and meadows a brilliant lemon-yellow flower. 

 Later comes H. decapetalus, the blossom not 

 unlike the preceding, but the plant more bushy 

 and more numerous flowered. H. multiflorus 

 bears showy yellow heads, there being a major 

 variety of this superior to the type. The double 

 form (//. m.flore-plenus), much seen in gardens, 

 is among the most conspicuous of perennials, 

 carrying a huge sheaf of golden bloom, the large 

 double flowers remaining long in perfection. H. 

 multiflorus increases very fast, a small root set 

 out in early spring forming a large bush by Au- 

 gust. The flowers are always larger on young 

 plants ; after the second year they diminish in 

 size, when the plants should be divided. Rud- 





