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HELICHRYSUM NIVEUM. 
It is a particularly free-growing and free-flowering plant, resembling H.macran- 
tlium in its extra-herbaceous or subshrubby nature, and in the number, size, and 
duration of its flowers. These are, indeed, occasionally a little larger than those of 
the species just named, but they want that delicate shade of rose which renders 
that plant so deeply interesting. Specimens which begin to blossom in July, in 
the open ground, will continue unfolding their flowers till the commencement of 
frost ; and even then, by a judicious and careful removal into pots, they may be 
made to bloom far into the winter. 
Treated as an herbaceous plant, we are not sure that it is perfectly hardy, those 
which have been noticed by us being kept in a frame through the winter. The 
best mode of managing it, however, is to raise it, early in each spring, from fresh 
seeds, as a tender annual, and permit it to perish in the autumn. By this system, 
the plants will be more healthy, and the flowers altogether finer. 
It is advisable to leave one or two of the largest plants entirely for seed, plucking 
ofi" the flower-buds after a sufficient number of the earliest are expanded, and so 
allowing the remaining ones a better chance of perfecting their maturation. From 
flowering plants, on the other hand, all the old blossoms may be gathered as they 
fade, which will cause a greater development of additional ones. 
Helichrysum is taken from helios^ sun, and chrysos^ gold, the blossoms of some 
of the original species being of a brilliant yellow colour. 
