COREOPSIS GRARDIFLORA.— THE LARGE FLOWERED COREOPSIS. 
Class XIX. SYNGENESIA. Order III. POL Y G A M I A-F RU STR ANE A. 
Natural Order CORYMBIFERiE. 
The generic name is from the Greek; bug-like; the seed being like a bug or tick : hence it is called by 
gardeners the Tick-seeded Sunflower. 
Generic character. Cal. common, either simple, subimbricate, or doubled; the exterior usually 
with eight leaflets, which are coarse, and placed in a circle ; the interior with as many larger ones, mem- 
branaceous, and coloured. Cor. compound rayed : corollets hermaphrodite numerous in the disk : females 
eight in the ray. Stain, in the hermaphrodites : filaments five, capillary, very short. Anther cylindric, 
tubular. Pist. in the hermaphrodites : germ compressed ; style filiform, length of the stamens ; stigma 
bifid, acute, slender : in the females, germ like the hermaphrodites ; style and stigma none. Per. none. 
Calyx scarcely altered. Seed in the hermaphrodite solitary, orbiculate, convex on one side, concave on the 
other, with a transverse protuberance at the top and bottom, surrounded by a membranaceous edge, with a 
two-horned tip : in the females none. Recept chaffy. 
This showy annual may be considered a great acquisition to our gardens, 
“ . where’er she 
Rolls her dark eye, and waves her golden hair.” 
From the beauty of its flowers it may be said to have eclipsed all the other species of this family : the bright 
golden appearance of its petals, renders it remarkably conspicuous. Its free disposition to flower, and the 
continued succession of blooms with which this plant is decked, demand for it a conspicuous place in the 
flower border. 
The Whorl-leaved Coreopsis has a yellow flower with a purple centre : it is a showy plant, grows very 
tall, and continues long in flower. It begins to blossom in July. It is a native of North America, where 
the flowers, although yellow, are used to dye cloth red. 
The Three-leaved has the same coloured flowers, and is from the same country. 
The Alternate-leaved, Thick leaved, and Golden, are all from North America. The first flowers in 
October and November ; the other two from August to October. These are all perennial plants, as are 
most of the genus. 
They may be increased by parting the roots, which should be done in autumn, when the stalks begin 
to decay. The two first prefer a light loamy earth, and exposure to the sun ; the others will thrive in 
almost any soil or situation. There are other species of this genus, some of which are raised in a hot-bed ; 
but their treatment, when grown, is generally the same. The kinds here named will bear the open air. 
The earth should be kept just moist, and the plants be supported by sticks as they advance in height, or 
the strong winds of autumn may be apt to break them. 
“ Lord Bacon, (Essay 46,) calls a garden f the purest of human pleasures.’ Admitting and valuing fully 
the truth of this assertion, it must be added, that it is also a pleasure which is easily procured, and 
which lasts throughout a very large portion of the year. In saying that a garden is easily procured, we must 
be understood to mean a garden in which the objects desired by the cultivator are show, gaiety, and neat- 
ness. Where rarity and refinement are wished for, the case is wholly altered; the first can be obtained at 
a small cost, but there is no limit to the expense of the second. It is of the method of cultivating and dis- 
playing flowers in a garden of the less refined sort that we shall now chiefly treat, and we do so because of 
the great increase of these gardens that is visible: the smallest villa, or the larger farm-house, are now 
rarely without their beds of flowers ; and a few hints may be useful to their proprietors. It is obviously 
desirable, where the varieties of flowers cultivated are few in number, that they should be chosen with 
regard to the following qualities : the size, the brilliancy, and the smell of their blossoms, the variety of their 
colours, and more especially the length of time which they continue to blow. This last point is very 
material, because, if it is disregarded, a large stock of plants will be requisite to keep up a succession, and the 
labour of planting and replanting, moving and removing, will multiply trouble and expense. As a very 
large majority of annuals are deficient in this quality, it must be to biennials and perennials that the 
gardener must chiefly trust. Many of these plants not being sufficiently hardy to stand exposure to an 
