FENZLIA, Nat. Ord. Polemomacece. 
ENZLIA DIANTHIFLORA is a very neat little plant, bearing a perfect 
mass of small flowers. In fact both plant and flower are miniature in 
size. The flowers are rosy tinted, with a yellow throat, surrounded by 
dark colored spots. This little plant is a _ 
native of California, and we think must grow 
up among the mountains or in the shady can- 
yons, for it seems to require both shade and 
moisture, and suffers materially in the garden 
in a hot, dry season. It is very desirable for 
pots or baskets, or for window or conserva- 
tory decoration, forming a globular mass of 
flowers, four inches in diameter, and constantly in flower, when the plant is healthy and strong. 
GAILLARDIA, Nat. Ord. Composit^e. 
AILLARDIA is a really good bedding annual, the plants being 
strong, constant bloomers through the whole summer, and each 
plant covering a good deal of grovmd. The plants are somewhat 
coarse, and the flowers by no means delicate, yet a good bed of 
Gaillardia will bring no discredit upon the taste of the cultivator. 
The Gaillardias are natives of 
Texas and other Southern States, 
and are known by the common 
name of Blanket Flower in some 
sections of the South, under which 
name we have received many speci- ~ ''C^f^WPPIJ' 
mens of seed and flowers. Half- 
hardy annuals ; bear transplanting well, and should be set from twelve to eighteen inches apart. 
GILIA, Nat. Ord. PolemoniacecB. 
Gilias are free-flowering, hardy annuals, growing from six to ten inches in height, with 
clusters of small, delicate, yet bright, lively flowers, that make very pretty little masses or clumps, 
but do not look well in very large beds or masses. 
The Gilias, like so many of our fine annuals, are 
natives of California, and were discovered and in- 
troduced into Europe about forty years since. 
Plants of most of the varieties flower very early, 
often in the seed bed, and almost as soon as out of 
the seed-leaf. The flowers are small, borne in 
panicles, and desirable for cutting. Quite hardy, 
and seed may be sown in the open ground, but if transplanted should be removed when small. 
HELIANTHUS, (Sunflower,) Nat. Ord. Composite. 
ELIANTHUS is the well known old fashioned Sunflower ; coarse, tall 
plants, from four to eight feet in height, with bright yellow flowers. 
The best double varieties produce a very good effect among shrub- 
bery, and when used as screens, etc. The Sunflower is a native of 
Peru, and in old times was regarded with some reverence as a flower 
sacred to the sun, and was worn by the virgins of the sun at the great 
festivals of the Incas. It is no doubt the flower alluded to by Ovid, 
when he represented Clytia as pining to death for love of Apollo and 
^ ^ being changed by the pitying god into a flower which turned to the 
--'-^'—^ sun. The Sunflower is hardy and annually reproduces itself from 
self-sown seed. Many are now turning their attention to the growth of the Sun-flower for the 
production of oil, and as food for poultry, and Prof. Maury published a series of articles endeavor- 
ing to prove that for the destruction of malaria in swampy districts it was invaluable, we have no 
doubt equaling the Eucalypttis. 
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