306 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
neglected garden is almost entirely occupied by this plant. In cultivated 
ground it has produced several varieties, but they are rather despised by 
good gardeners and florists as plants that are really too independent to be 
tolerated in select enclosures, 
; CALENDULA OFFICINALIS (sold in shops). Stems 20 
—o Pe inches high. Leaves ae Rover heats orange, 
2 inches across: June to September. Fruits boat-shaped, incurved, the 
back rough with little points (muricated). Whole plant sticky, and 
giving out an aromatic odour. There are varieties with very pale yellow 
heads; with a darker disk; with the disk-florets all or nearly all 
developed into Strap-shape; with the rays streaked with orange and 
salmon; or bordered with purple-brown. The most distinct form is 
proliferous, and mimics on a large scale the Hen-and-Chickens Daisy 
already mentioned under Bellis. As in that genus, the Mother Marigold 
(C. officinalis, var. prolifera) is distinguished by having seven or eight 
branches from the involuere, each ending in a small Marigold flower- 
e 
 Oiivtion C. officinalis will succeed in any soil or situation, but 
if grown at all the best should be got out of it, and to this 
out at distances of a foot apart, in rather rich, light, loamy soil. They 
Course, for the purpose of sowing seed for the following year, a plant 
with fine flowers may be allowed to seed, but the heads must be watched 
and gathered as soon as ripe. 
Description of Calendula officinalis, upper portion of a plant, natural 
Plate 155. ging = 
- Fig. 1 is a section through a flower-head; 2, a ray- 
floret; 3, a fruit; 4, a seedling. 
GAZANIAS 
Natural Order Composirz. Genus Gazania 
GaAZANIA (derived from the Greek, gaza, riches, in allusion to brilliant 
Theophrastus’ botanical works, 1393-1478). A genus containing about 
twenty-four Species of showy herbs, They are characterised by the 
