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seeds one year to flower the next. 8. pendula is 
similar, with creamy-white flowers, and S. armena and 
8. Wanneri are kinds with blue flowers. 
TAGETES ( French and African Marigold). — Orna- 
mental Mexican annuals of free growth and blossom. 
They flourish in ordinary good garden soil, and are 
easily raised from seeds sown in gentle heat in March 
or April. The African Marigold ( T . erecta ) grows 
about 2 feet high, and has pinnately-cut leaves with 
lance-shaped toothed segments. The flower-heads 
are of a beautiful soft yellow, and in the fine double 
varieties vary from pale lemon-yellow to orange. The 
French Marigold ( T . patula), 1 to 2 feet high, has 
leaves more finely divided than those of the African 
variety. The blossoms are golden brown in the type, 
but in the garden forms the double-flowered varieties 
are striped and mottled with orange, yellow, and 
chestnut brown or purple. The Pigmy Marigold (T. 
nano) is a variety of the French. It grows only 
G inches high, and is a capital plant for edgings or 
borders. The Striped Mexican Marigold (T. signata ) 
is very similar to the French one in habit, but it has 
much smaller golden-yellow flowers. The variety 
pumila is a bushy plant rarely more than a foot high, 
and covered with bright yellow blossoms. 
TAMUS communis. — This is the “ Black Bryony ” 
of our copses and hedges. It is an ornamental 
climber of the Yam family, and has black ovoid fleshy 
rootstocks and angular climbing stems. The leaves 
are ovate heart-shaped, and the minute blossoms 
which appear in May and June are succeeded in 
autumn by oblong red berries about half an inch long, 
