THE RUDBECKTLA, eT 
and flowers in July; the flowers are of a golden-yellow 
colour, R&R. Drimmoudi is of dwarf habit, rising only two 
feet, flowering from June to September, the Howers rich 
deep yellow with a band of purplish-brown and a curious 
brown centre; this is a fine plant. 2. fulyidu rises two 
feet; the flowers appear in July, they are orange-yellow, 
the disk purple; a fine plant. R. dir/u erows two to 
three feet in height, the flowers appear from July to 
September; they are of a rich orange-yellow, the disk 
purplish-brown. 2. /ucduiuta is of compact habit, height 
three feet, flowers pale yellow, the leaves elegantly cut ; 
afine plant. 2. speciosa is of medium growth, rarely ex- 
ceeding two and a half feet in height; the Howers appear 
late, they are orange-yellow with blackish-purple disk. 
About a dozen more may be found by those who want 
them—at all events, their names may—but it might be 
difficult to obtain the plants. 
The American continent is somewhat profusely sprinkled 
with composite plants that flower in the later summer and 
autumn, and prove perfectly hardy with us. We want 
the best of them for our gardens, and perhaps there are 
not many remaining to be introduced, for the botanists 
have not been idle on the “boundless prairies.” It is the 
peculiar characteristic of a large majority of these plants 
that they flower ata season when our native plants are for 
the most part in a seedy state; and thus they help us 
through the autumn, when out-door pleasures obtain more 
of our attention than at any other time. 
The botanist in whose honour the Rudbeckia was 
named by Linneus was the son of John Rudheck, a 
learned Swedish bishop, who aided very materially in the 
publication of the Swedish Bible, commonly called the 
