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three growing from nine to twelve feet high. 

 H. giganteus has purplish stems, rough, hairy, 

 lanceolate, and sessile leaves ; flowers two and a 

 half inches across, abundantly produced in Au- 

 gust. H. doronicotdes is one of the finest of the 

 sunflowers, a large-flowered, large-leaved, tall- 

 growing species, with bright-yellow blossoms. 

 H. Maximiliani requires a warm climate to 

 show flower, it being the latest of the genus to 

 blossom. 



At this season spiders become very annoying 

 in the garden, weaving their webs among the 

 flowers and leaves, so as to give an untidy ap- 

 pearance to the shrubs, vines, and flower-bor- 

 ders. They may serve some subtle purpose be- 

 sides catching flies, these hordes of weavers, big 

 and little, white and brown. But their dust and 

 leaf and insect and pollen-strewn shuttles are 

 certainly unclean. The sparrow will not walk 

 into their parlor, and brushing away the webs or 

 drenching them with the hose is merely tempo- 

 rary. There is but one way to treat the Sep- 

 tember spider to follow the example of the 

 mistress of the house, and kill him, cruel as it 

 may appear. 



