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autumn, and are very fine in a wild garden or 
large bed. Other good large plants which the 
first frost will not hurt are Helenium autum- 
nale , with a yellow, daisy-shaped flower, and 
Helenium atropurpureum striata , with red, 
brown, and yellow streaked stars and purplish 
black centre. The most useful of all autumn 
plants, as they are so easy to grow, are the 
Michaelmas daisies, a kind of aster. There 
are really good purple ones, and mauve, white, 
and pinkish varieties. Many of them have 
names, such as “ Mabel,” a bright mauve, 
“ Chapmani,” a small white, “ Arcturus,” a deep 
blue purple, “ formosa,” a pale pink, “rubra,” a 
reddish purple, but many others with no special 
names are just as good. They grow easily 
from divisions, and it is possible to get nice 
large plants very soon from small pieces begged 
for, when a gardener is digging over a border. 
Chrysanthemums can be got in the same way 
or by cuttings. The great big flowers like mop- 
heads you may know as chrysanthemums will 
not do out of doors, as their large size is only 
obtained by careful cultivation in pots, but the 
small-flowered kinds, red, yellow r , white, pink, 
and bronze, do quite well, and nothing could be 
prettier than these bright flowers in the October 
sunshine. The dazzling red lobelias, Lobelia 
cardinalis and fulgens, look splendid late in 
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