PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS 



spread on every side, and so develop the best 

 there is in it. It blooms from the ist to the 

 15th of July. 



Rosa lucida, the dwarf Wild Rose, has been 

 caught in the region and tamed. There is a 

 hedge of it now on the island, more than a hun- 

 dred feet long, that every year increases in the 

 beauty of its bloom and the richness of its foliage. 

 It blooms from June 20th to July 15th. 



Chrysanthemum uliginosum, the Giant Daisy, 

 uniformly called by the dealers a Pyrethrum, was 

 described in such glowing terms in a catalogue, 

 with such a tremendous picture to prove the 

 truth of it all, that I was convinced that I could 

 not get along with less than eighteen plants. If 

 I had bought but one plant, and had annually 

 divided its roots, I could to-day have covered 

 half an acre with the product. It is a wonderful 

 grower, thrives anywhere, and pushes to the wall 

 every other plant in its neighborhood. It grows 

 five or six feet high, bearing large white daisy- 

 like flowers in profusion, from the first week in 

 September until frost. 



Chrysanthemum lacustre, or latifoUum, and C. 

 maximum are both hardy plants, bearing large 

 single white daisy-like flowers. They may be 



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