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CENTAUREA RAGUSINA. 



Centaurea RAGUSINA.— This beautiful bedding 

 plant has been in American nurseries for a couple of 

 years or more, but is not yet common. At a recent 

 meeting of the Penna. Horticultural Society one 

 was exhibited in bloom. It has golden -yellow flowers 

 which contrast prettily with the pure silvery foliage. 



It stands our summer heat very well, making a 

 nice contrast with Iresine, Coleus, Dracoenas and 

 other colored leaved plants. It is a herbaceous 

 perennial and a native of the South of Europe, and 

 with a little protection would probably stand our 

 winters. In some catalogues it is called Centaurea 

 candidissima. 



Cosmos btpinnatus. — This is a Mexican annual, 

 allied to Coreopsis, but is of a beautiful purple color 

 The plant grows about two feet high, commences in 

 Pennsylvania to flower in Ju:y it the plants are 

 advanced a little by being sown under glass in May, 

 and it continues blooming until the fall. It will be 

 a popular annual for the United States from its 

 peculiar color, and from the fact that it endures 

 the heat of our summers so well. 



Tagetes signata patula. — Is another Mexican 

 annual which has been found to endure the Amer- 

 can summers well. It is one of the family to which 

 the old French Marigold belongs, but the flowers 

 are small, and numerously produced, of an orange 

 color. 



Golden Alder. — Among hardy trees, we look 

 upon the Golden Alder, Alnus glutinosa aurea, as 

 the most striking of our acquisitions, and well 

 adapted to impart effect to plantations and pleasure 

 grounds, the materials for which are now both ex- 

 tensive and of a telHng character, and moreover are 

 apparently engaging some of the attention they 

 deserve. — Gard. Chronicle. 



Antennaria tomentosa. — Is the most precious 

 little gem of a silvery-leaved edging plant that has 

 ever been seen. It does not grow higher than the 

 moss on a moist trunk or stone, but is so dense and 

 silvery that the effect on the ground is as good as 

 that of Centaurea ragusina. It runs along the earth 

 and spreads very closely and very much. We had 

 it from Mr. Niven, of Hull, two or three years ago, 

 and it has been first grown as an edging plant by 

 the Messrs. Henderson during the present season. 

 —The Field. 



In the recent issues of the Botanical Magazine yr^ 

 occur figures and descriptions of the following : — I 



