288 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
G. ARISTATA (awned). Stems 20 inches high. Leaves lance-shaped, en- 
tire or slightly toothed. Flower-heads yellow, 2 inches across, the reddish 
styles in the disk-florets very prominent ; August to October. Perennial. 
G. PULCHELLA (neat). Stems 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves lance-shaped, 
with a few coarse teeth. Flower-heads 2 to 3 inches across ; ray-florets 
crimson tipped with yellow. In the typical form these rays are flat and 
spreading, but in some of the garden forms they become funnel-shaped, 
as in our Plate 145. In others the disk-florets are similarly developed, 
so that the head bears a close resemblance to that of the Scabious. 
There is a corresponding variation in respect of colour, purple-brown, 
yellow, red being variously combined in these flowers. = 
The following brief selection of garden varieties (peren- 
— bain) is given as a mere suggestive sample :— 
George Kelway, large crimson, yellow- Magenta King, magenta ct ee yellow. 
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ged flowers, Somerset, pure yellow, quille 
James Kelway, very large, brilliant Scarlet, | Vivian Grey, yellow, very fine 
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yellow e William Kelway, brilliant crimson, yellow 
Lorenzo, maroon, yellow edged. edge, very large. 
cuaviaca Gaillardias love a light rich soil. Planted in ie 
either in bed or border, they produce fine masses of colour, 
with a long succession of blossom. They are also valuable for their 
supply of cut flowers, Propagation is effected by seeds, divisions, or 
cuttings. Seeds should be sown in February or March, and the ages 
placed in gentle heat, The perennials may be divided in spring. 
Cuttings succeed best if taken in spring or autumn, and even the annuals 
are increased by this method, with the object of getting better plants 
that flower earlier than those raised from seeds, : 
Description of Some forms of Gaillardia pulchella, var. picta. Fig. 1 
Pla 
Ole ig A pothion through the flower-head, and Fig. 2 enlarged 
florets from disk and ray. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
Natural Order Composit. Genus Chrysanthemum 
CHRYSANTHEMUM (Greek, chrysos, gold, and anthemon, a flower). An 
important genus comprising about eighty species of herbs and shrubs, with 
alternate or radical leaves, deeply toothed or cut. Flower-heads solitary 
or in corymbs. The involucre bell-shaped, composed of overlapping 
i slucent margins. The ray-florets are in one 
series only, strap-shaped, yellow or white, and all female. Those of the 
