The Best Sunflowers 
and not so tall. It is a good plan, when these 
Sunflowers are used in mixed borders, to cut 
out all the middle blooms ; the plant then 
branches into a number of smaller blooming 
points. The new, so-called Red Sunflower has 
a broad band of red-brown colouring near the 
disc, giving the flower the appearance of an 
immense Gaillardia. A smaller Sunflower 
called Primrose or Sulphur is a useful plant, 
and there are still shorter kinds called Dwarf 
Miniature. They may be sown in the open or 
treated as half-hardy ; sowing in slight heat 
in March. 
Heliotrope.— Usually propagated by cut- 
tings, but if a good strain of seed is obtained, 
plants grown as half-hardy annuals are very 
vigorous. 
Hesperis matronalis [Rocket) ; hardy 
biennial. — The single form is a free-growing 
plant, flowering from the middle of May to the 
end of June. It gives off a sweet scent in the 
evening, and looks best in a half-shady place, 
such as the edge of woodland or the beginning 
of a wood walk. The double kinds, of which 
the pure white is the best, should be treated 
as biennials, dividing clumps after they have 
bloomed. 
Hollyhock. See Althea. 
Honesty. See Lunaria. 
Humulus japonicus ( Japanese Hop) ; h.a. — 
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