BUDBECKIA 



DAISY OBDEB 



HELIANTHUS 515 



R. laciniata. — A showy perennial 2-4 

 ft. high, the main stem sometimes reaching 

 a height of 15 ft. and always needing sup- 

 port. Leaves roughish, deeply parted and 

 cut, and clothed with small hairs, especi- 

 ally at the edges. Flowers in summer, 

 clear yellow, 3-4 in. across, with a green- 

 ish-yeUow conical disc. The variety 

 flore pleno grows 6 ft. high, and has 

 handsome double orange-yeUow flowers. 



Culture Sc. as above. 



R. maxima. — A fine species 4-8 ft. 

 high, with oval or oblong, slightly toothed 

 or entire glaucous leaves, stem-clasping 

 above, stalked below, 8-12 in. long. 

 Flowers in August, 8-4 in. across, yellow, 

 with a cone-like disc ; ray florets drooping. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. pallida {Echinacea angustifoUa). 

 A pretty perennial 2-4 ft. high, with 

 lance-shaped hairy leaves 4-6 in. long. 

 Flowers in summer, 4-6 in. across, pale 

 purple or rose. 



Culture Sc. as above. 



R. pinnata (Lepachys pinnatiflda). — 

 A pretty plant about 3 ft. high, with pin- 

 nate leaves cut into 3-7 lance-shaped 

 acute leaflets. Flowers in July, with light 

 yellow drooping ray florets longer than 

 the cylindrical disc. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. purpurea {Echmacea purpurea). — 

 A showy species 3-4 ft. high, with smooth 

 stems, and roughish ovate lance-shaped 

 leaves, tapering towards the base. 

 Flowers in late summer and autumn, 

 about 4 in. across, rosy-purple, solitary, 

 on long, thick, rigid stalks. The variety 

 intermedia has less drooping ray florets ; 

 and serotina is a later flowering hairy 

 form. Native of Louisiana. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. speciosa (JfJ. NewmamA). — A hand- 

 some compact-growing species 2-3 ft. 

 high. Lower leaves ovate, strongly 

 ribbed, coarsely toothed, on slender stalks, 

 6-9 in. long ; upper ones sessile lance- 

 shaped. Flowers late in summer, 3-4 in. 

 across, rich orange-yellow, with a velvety 

 blackish-purple globose disc and drooping 

 ray florets. Native of N. America. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. triloba. — A vigorous hairy plant, 3- 

 5 ft. high, with lower leaves 3-lobed and 

 coarsely serrate ; upper ones ovate lance- 

 shaped, sessile ; those springing from the 

 root having slender stalks. Flowers in 

 August, numerous, 2-3 in. across, yellow. 



with a deep brown or blackish-purple 

 disc. Native of Carolina. 

 Culture dc. as above. 



HELIANTHUS (Sunflower).— This 

 genus (which now includes Harpalium) 

 consists of about 50 species of tall annual 

 or perennial herbs, mostly natives of N. 

 America. Leaves large, simple, roughish. 

 Flower-heads large, yellow ; ray florets 

 yellow ; disc florets purple or violet. 



Cultv/re and Propagation. — All the 

 Smiflowers are easily grown in ordinary 

 garden soil, but the richer it is the better, 

 as they are gross feeders. The annual 

 kinds are easily raised from seeds sown in 

 the open border. The perennial kinds are 

 increased in autumn or spring by dividing 

 the rootstocks, every shoot of which wiU 

 produce a new plant. They like plenty of 

 room to develop and an open sunny situa- 

 tion. In the late summer and autumn — 

 from the begiimiag of August onwards — 

 the pereimial Sunflowers are very effective 

 in masses by themselves either in borders 

 or on the grass. If given plenty of space 

 the stems will be strong enough to support 

 themselves, but if too close together will 

 become weak, straggling, and untidy un- 

 less neatly tied to stout stakes. Although 

 the perennial Sunflowers grow well in our 

 climate it is very rarely that any of them 

 ripens seeds. 



H. angustifolius {Coreopsis angusti- 

 foUa; Rudhechia angustifoUa). — A na- 

 tive of wet places from New Jersey and 

 Kentucky to Florida and Texas, 2-5 ft. 

 high, with slender stems, and dark green 

 narrow glossy leaves. Flowers in Septem- 

 ber and October, orange-yeUow, over 2 in. 

 across, with a blackish-purple centre. 



Culture dc. as above. Increased by 

 division. 



H. annuus (Common Sunflower). — A 

 well-known plant with stout stems 6-10 

 ft. high, and large heart-shaped, coarsely 

 toothed leaves, the yellow flowers varying 

 from 6 to 12 in. across. The common 

 single variety is not worthy of cultivation 

 in the flower garden, but some of the 

 better kinds as glohosus, fistulosus, 

 cucufnerif alius, sulphu/reus, I)a/mma/ni, 

 caUfornicus plenissimus are more or less 

 ornamental. H. argophyllus seems to be 

 a form of the Common Sunflower, with 

 soft silvery downy leaves, but it rarely 

 attains a height of 6 ft. H. lenticulwris is 

 another variety about the same height. 



Culture dc. as above. Raised from 



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