nothing more than little petals, are in reality so 
many true flowers; and every one of those tiny 
yellow things also, which you see in the centre, 
and which at first you have perhaps taken for no- 
thing but stamens, are real flowers. Pull out one 
of the white leaves from the flower, you will think 
at first that it is flat from one end to the other, but 
look carefully at the end by which it was fastened 
to the flower, and you will see that this end is not 
flat, but round and hollow, in form of a tube, and 
that a little thread ending in two horns, issues from 
the tube ; this thread is the forked style of the 
flower, which, as you now see, is flat only at top. 
Next, look at those little yellow things in the mid- 
dle of the flower, and which, as I have told you, 
are all so many flowers; if the flower is sufficiently 
advanced, you will see some of them open in the 
middle, and even cut into several parts. These are 
monopetalous corollas, which expand, and a glass 
will easily discover in them the pistil, and even 
the anthers with which it is surrounded. This is 
enough to shew you by the eye, the possibility that 
all these small affairs, both white and yellow, may 
be so many distinct flowers ; and this is a constant 
fact.” Our young readers have here a key to the 
knowledge of Compound Flowers. 
Echinacea dubia is tuberous rooted, like the 
Dahlia ; and, doubtless, may be preserved in the 
same manner ; it has, however, been the practice, 
hitherto, [to take the roots up from the borders, in 
autumn, and pot them, preparatory to keeping 
them under some sort of protection, till spring, to 
be then turned out again. 
