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for a screen for sleeping porches. They will thrive 

 in any situation and condition. 



There are many low-growing foliage plants among 

 the hardy perennials that are useful for edgings for 

 heds of ornamental plants, and will thrive with little 

 care, increasing in beauty from year to year. 



Among sun-loving plants for warm, sunny posi- 

 tions the annual sunflowers are a most interesting 

 class of plants. The miniature varieties are especially 

 desirable, many of them possessing curiously twisted 

 petals like the cactus dahlias, which make the flowers 

 exceedingly graceful and picturesque. The Colors 

 range from a nearly white type to a clear lemon, and 

 through varying shades to deep, golden yellow. Stella 

 has flowers of the richest golden yellow, while Orion, 

 an improved variety of Stella, has petals twisted like 

 a cactus dahlia. Both of these varieties bear single 

 flowers, but there are many double forms well worthy 

 of culture. Chrysanthemum-flowered is perfectly 

 double and resembles in the fluffy doubleness of its 

 flowers a chrysanthemum or aster. Double White 

 Miniature has flowers nearly white. 



It is doubtful if a more popular flower has been in- 

 troduced in the last score of years than the golden 

 glow; this so closely resembles the sunflowers as to 

 be considered by many as one of that family; it be- 

 longs, however, to the genus Rudbeckia or cone flower. 

 Most members of this family are distinguished by a 



