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CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. 



Helianthtjs MULTIFLORUS FLORE-PLENO. 



is a rare and interesting species, remarkable for being flowers one and a half inches across arranged in 



the dwarfest of the perennial group, producing a tuft a long leafy raceme. This species flowers abun- 



of spreading, dark green, glossy leaves, and slender dantly in September and October. M. mulHflorus, 



two and a half feet high, bearing numerous the Perennial Single Sunflower, or the Many- 



