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Funkia ovata. This has a handsome mound of glossy 
leaves with the tall flowers shown in the illustration, through 
a long period of summer. 
Funkia ovata. This has spikes of blue bells about 
2 feet high. 
F. lancifolia. Narrow green leaves and lavender 
flowers. 
F. lancifolia, var. variegata. Flowers like the 
last, but foliage distinctly variegated with yellow 
and white. 
F. subcordata grandiflora. This is as beautiful 
as the Madonna Lily, and much easier to grow. 
Stock of it is rather low among nurseries and we 
advise a good quantity of it to be put in gardens 
while there is an opportunity. The flowers are 
about 5 inches long, pure porcelain-white, 
graceful in outline and delicate in perfume 
like the Lilium longijlorum, or Easter Lily. 
It flowers in June and July. Useful plant 
for a shady corner next the house or on the 
lawn, wherever Rhododendrons thrive. 
GAILLARDIA grandiflora. Blanket Flower 
Large, showy, daisy-like flowers, banded 
with orange and rich red. In bloom all 
summer and so useful for cut-flowers that 
no garden can afford to be without it. 
GENTIANA Andrewsii. Closed Gentian. 
Celestial-blue flowers that are worthy the 
highest admiration. Native along brooks 
on Long Island. I foot high. September. 
GYPSOPHILA paniculata. Baby's 
Breath. A fine white spray to give a halo 
of white around a bouquet of other flowers. 
It grows about 2 feet high and blooms in 
August and September. 
G. repens. A low plant about 6 inches high, 
with pretty little pink flowers, and suitable 
for borders or dry places. 
HABENARIA ciliaris. A fringed orchid 
that grows on the Hempstead Plains. It 
has showy spikes of orange flowers in July. 
HELENIUM autumnale super bum. Sneeze- 
weed. A tall yellow composite, blooming late in 
the summer, decorative and neat. 
H ELI AN THUS Maximiliana. Maximiliana's 
Sunflower. The latest and showiest tall flower. 
After several hard frosts have killed off nearly 
everything but the Witch Hazel and Chrysan- 
themum, this will hold aloft its golden banner as 
high as a field of corn. With the name Sunflower, 
we think of a clumsy, weedy plant. It is a grace- 
ful flower of taper-pointed petals about 4 inches 
wide, as beautiful when cut with short stems 
as when its arching stems reach to the ceiling of 
an entrance hall furnished in dark shades. As 
it solves three problems: flowers for the garden, 
shrubbery, and the house at the end of the season, 
it should become widely planted. 
H. mollis. Hoary Sunflower. A sturdy, upright 
plant about 4 feet high, with silvery white foliage 
Flowers lemon-yellow in August and September. 
HELIOPSIS lsevis, var. Pitcheriana. A com- 
posite like the last, growing about 3 feet high, 
with deep orange-yellow flowers about 3 inches 
in diameter. It blooms earlier than most, of its 
class in June. 
HEMEROCALLIS. Yellow Day Lily. 
H. fulva. Tawny Day Lily. About abandoned 
houses and about roadsides where garden rubbish 
has been dumped years ago, is a tall, tawny 
yellow Lily, which we have seen successfully used 
to hold steep banks above sea walls. Its vigor 
and persistence shows a commendable quality. 
The following are improved forms of excellent 
garden value and with long stems as cut-flowers. 
H. Florham. A new variety, originated from 
hybrids made by Mr. Herrington, gardener to 
Mr. H. McK. Twombly. They have very large, 
golden yellow, sweet-scented flowers during June 
and July. 
H. Dumortieri. A Japanese variety with deep 
orange-yellow flowers, bronzed on the outside. 
It grows about \% feet high. 
H. flava. Yellow Day Lily. Clusters of deep yellow 
flowers about 4 feet high. 
White 
Day Lily, Funkia subcordata grandiflora, as it grows in 
the open garden, it is a chaste flower. 
