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BEAUTIFUL GARDEN FLOWERS. 
varieties, however, like Meteor, Orange Cockade, and 
Orange King, in which the blossoms are larger and 
finer, and more highly coloured and tinted, may he 
grown with advantage in hold masses in beds or 
borders. They are easily raised from seeds in spring 
or autumn. (Plate 32, fig. 85.) 
CALLIRHOE.— These ornamental Mallow-like 
plants flourish in ordinary good garden soil of a 
gritty nature, but being natives of the United States 
require rather warm and sheltered spots. 0 . involu- 
crata, a trailing plant 6 to 9 feet high, with divided 
leaves, and crimson mallow-like flowers in July, is 
probably the best known species. It is a good plant 
for rambling over rockeries or on the border, but may 
also be trained on walls or trellises. C. digitata, 2 to 
3 feet high, may be recognised by its leaves being cut 
into 6 or 7 spreading lobes, and its long-stalked purple 
blossoms in July and August. Both kinds may be 
raised from seeds sown in gentle heat in spring, or by 
division of the rootstocks. Other kinds are C. Papaver, 
bright purple red, and 0. pedata, with clierry-red 
blossoms. 
CALLISTEPHUS hortensis. — This is the parent of 
the florists’ “ China Aster,” and is more frequently to 
be met with in catalogues under the name of Aster sinen- 
sis than the proper one here given. It is a half-hardy 
annual, native of China, and grows from 1 to 2 feet 
high, having stiffish hairy stems, and ovate, toothed 
leaves. The flower-heads, 2 to 4 inches or more across, 
are freely produced from July to November, the strap- 
shaped ray florets being of a beautiful mauve purple 
while the centre or disc is bright yellow. Now 
