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is very pretty when trained to neat sticks, or when left to 
its natural mode of growth. Being ever in bloom, endur- 
ing light frosts, beautiful and sweet, it will, we think, be- 
come a great, favorite. 
ACHILLEA,— Yarrow. 
(Named after Achilles, a disciple of Chiron, and the first physician who used - 
it for healing wounds. ] 
Achillea millefélium.—A native, and like the other 
species a hardy perennial, common along road sides; I 
have found a quite pretty rose-colored variety of this. A 
handsome variety with red flowers, sometimes called A. 
rubra; is in bloom all the season and worthy of a place in 
the garden. 
A. Ptarmica.—Sneeze-wort, a name given it because the 
dried powder of the leaves, snuffed up the nostrils, pro- 
vokes sneezing. Thisis a desirable border-flower, particu- 
larly in its double variety, as it continues in bloom most 
of the season, throwing up a succession of its double 
white flowers in corymbs, on stems about one foot high. 
The foliage is dark, shining green. It is very hardy, and 
easy to cultivate in almost any common soil. 
A. alirea, or golden-flowered, has rich golden-yellow 
flowers, but not so hardy as the others named. All the 
species produce their flowers in corymbs. 
ACONITUM.—Monxsxoop. 
[So called from growing about Aconi, a town of Bithynia.] 
The species are robust, free-flowering plants, of some 
beauty and consequence. The stems rise from 2 to 6 feet 
in height, upright, strong, furnished with many digitate 
or palmate leaves, and terminated by panicles or loose 
