278 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
H. Latiriorus (cheerful-flowered). Stem 6 feet high, branched, 
bearing a great: number of flower-heads, which are 3 or 4 inches across, 
on slender footstalks; August and September. A perennial, Introduced 
from North America (1810). 
The perennial Species and their varieties are most valuable plants for 
the herbaceous border or for large beds on lawns. They also look well 
when planted in large masses among trees such as CONIFER&. The named 
varieties, such as Miss Mellish, can only be multiplied by division. They 
plenty of room. This last is a point often forgotten when planting 
them in small gardens, and the result is a clump of poor half-starved 
_ dwarfs. Half the number of specimens in double the amount of space 
would make a far finer show. They may all be propagated by seed 
sown in the open border, or in pots, in March, and the young plants 
afterwards pricked out at distances of about twenty inches apart. The 
perennials may also be increased by dividing the clumps. : 
gyyottreahad Upper portions of H, elianthus argophyllus. Fig. im 
te a seedling; 2) a ray-floret; 3, a disk-floret; 4, the frult, 
natural size and enlarged. 
COREOPSIS 
Natural Order Composir#. Genus Coreopsis 
: ene (Greek, horis, a bug, and opsis, likeness; the fruit resembling 
ug). A genus of showy herbs with opposite leaves. The flower- 
