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GARDEN FLOWERS. 



bloom very freely on long stems two to three feet high. 

 Gentiana And/rewsii, closed gentian, is a pretty, late- 

 flowering species with fine blue flowers an inch long. It 

 likes a good garden soil, especially if it be sandy and 

 moist. Some of the sunflowers bloom late in fall, notably 

 Helianthus Maximiliani which grows six to eight feet 

 high. It is very free-flowering and large-growing, and 

 should have plenty of room. It comes from Texas. The 

 finest sunflower is perhaps H. orgycdis, graceful sunflower, 

 also hailing from Texas. It grows six to ten feet high, has 

 great flowers three or four inches in diameter, and has 

 narrow leaves that give it a very graceful habit. The 

 sunflower is splendid in inflorescence, but coarse in general 

 effect, and should therefore be planted somewhat in the 

 background or in the midst of large shrubbery. Stand- 

 ing alone it suggests a coarse, greedy plant that seems 

 inclined to seize upon and exhaust all the ground around 



it without regard to the rights oi 

 other plants. 



Hemeroecdlis Thunhergii is a 

 fine late - blooming day - lily that 

 bears yellow sweet-scented flowers 

 on stems four feet high. One of 

 / ^ the most splendid of fall blooming 

 herbaceous plants is the rose-mallow. 

 The common marsh rose-mallow 

 (Hibiscus Moscheutos), growing 

 three to five feet high, with light 

 rose-colored flowers in August larger than hollyhocks, 

 and continuing long in bloom, is the best known. Hi- 



RED-HOT POKER. 

 (tritoma uvaria.) 



