FEVERFEW 



the whites that one must turn for the peacemaker in the October, 

 as in fact in any, garden. 



FEVERFEW 



Chrysdnthemum partMnium. 



Perennial, growing in tufts; early introduced into this country and 

 still in cultivation; in the Eastern States has escaped into waste places. 

 Europe. Summer. 



Stem. — One to three feet high, leafy, branching. 



Leaves.-— Yellow-green, pinnately parted into ovate or oblong seg- 

 ments which are pinnatifid or incised into rounded divisions. 



Flower-heads. — Radiate, three-fourths of an inch across, white or 

 cream, borne in loose terminal or ax- 

 illary cymes; the peduncles leafy or 

 bracted; rays white, few or many; 

 disk-florets white, tipped with pale- 

 yellow. 



Receptacle. — Slightly convex, naked. 

 Involucre. — Broad and flat; scales 

 imbricated, margins scarious. 

 Pappus. — Minute crown, or none. 



This is one of the old favorites 

 that grew in pilgrim gardens, and 

 still iinds a place in the hardy bor- 

 der. The plant makes bushes three 

 or more feet high and of proper- _ , ^, '', 



° ^ ^ Feverfew. Chrysdnthemum parlhhitum 



tionate breadth. The leaves are 



pinnately divided into coarse divisions, which are cut again into 

 rounded and toothed segments. The flower-heads exercise the 

 unquestioned right of a composite to vary, and while, during all the 

 years of cultivation, they have not enlarged in size materially, 

 many different forms appear. Among these is a half-double with 

 perhaps twenty white rays and a pale-yellow disk; another is a 

 full-double, though not very regular; a third has slender tubular 

 rays and small quilled disk-florets; a fourth flat rays and a hemi- 

 spherical disk of small quilled florets. In all these variations the 

 habit of growth and character of foliage remain unchanged. 



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