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every plant seems covered with great saucer-like discs 4 or 5 
inches across. Not being fastidious as to soil it is easily 
are large, pure white at first, but afterwards changing to pale 
cultivated, and can be increased by careful division of the roots 
pink or rose. It is eminently a night-bloomer, few flowers 
being found expanded during the day, but in the twilight 
Fig. 71.—@NOTHERA TARAXACIFOLIA, 
used for surfacing large beds in which tall plants of erect habit 
are grown, as Roses, Dablias, scarlet Lobelias, &c. Flowers 
from July to the end of September, continuing onwards occa- 
sionally until nearly Christmas in southern districts and in 
This good old plant used to be more extensively 
in spring. Seed also germinates easily if not old, and a stock 
is best raised by this method. Not being very neat it is best 
planted where it can ramble at its own will on the rougher 
parts of the rockwork, or in some roomy border where extreme 
dressiness is not looked for. It also shows to advantage when | mild seasons. 
