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House & Garden 
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To find the way 
This is how millions found the 
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It is film that makes teeth dingy 
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stains, then forms cloudy coats. 
Tartar is based on film. 
Old-way brushing left much film 
intact, so beautiful teeth were 
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Film holds food substance 
which ferments and forms acids. 
It holds the acids in contact with 
the teeth to cause decay. Germs 
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Sunflowers 
(Continued, from page 118) 
without question, yet they must, I 
suppose, remain always something of 
curiosities rather than legitimate garden 
material. They are too self-assertive 
easily to become part of the garden 
picture. Indeed in my own planting 
of them after the color range and the 
variety of form had been once noted, 
the chief interest lay in watching the 
gold finches firmly clutch the edge of the 
flower and hanging head downwards dig 
out and devour the fat seeds from the 
center. There is the ever recurring 
wonder of those geometric centers, yet, 
on the whole, they are for the birds, 
the children, the water-colorists, and 
Mr. H-ge and the madness of his 
whirling squares. 
THE ANNUAL CLASS 
In strict justness an exception should 
be noted here, and that is in respect to 
the small flowered, more finely branch¬ 
ing sorts found in the annual class. 
Some of these especially those with 
narrow twisted petals are very hand¬ 
some. One plant which appeared in a 
planting grown from a packet of seed 
of the newer hybrids attracted a great 
deal of attention in my garden. It 
grew only three feet tall and at one 
time carried upwards of fifty golden 
yellow, dark centered flowers averaging 
perhaps three inches in diameter. In 
its small foliage and branching habit 
it exhibited none of the coarseness of 
texture which we usually think of as 
belonging to the annual sunflowers 
as a class. 
If we must leave these to an occa¬ 
sional appearance, perhaps among the 
vegetables in the kitchen garden, it is 
an entirely different matter when we 
come to consider the hardy species of 
the Helianthus. Here we find several 
subjects that will prove well-nigh in¬ 
dispensable to the informal hardy 
planting. 
When several years ago I wrote a 
certain hardy plant specialist asking 
him to send on to me one root each 
of all the varieties of perennial sun¬ 
flowers that he grew, I knew very little 
of what was in store for me. It was 
truly a surprise package I had, to 
be sure, known in a second hand 
sort of way more or less about the 
hardy Helianthus, but I had never 
grown them, and I never feel that I 
have come to know anything in the 
plant line until I have given it a first 
hand trial in my own garden. The 
roots and toe-like processes that I have 
since come to know so well, too well 
I fancy some one is saying, came, 
bearing a most formidable array of 
name tags. There were Helianthus 
Maximilliani, Multiflorus Maximus, 
Multiflorus Maximus flora plena, Rigi- 
dus, Mollis, Orgyalis, Miss Mellish, 
H. G. Moon, and the Wooley Dod. 
Planted in a row in a trial bed (with 
me any plant with which I am at all 
unfamiliar has to spend a year at least 
in a trial bed before it can be admitted 
among the elect) they all lived and 
throve and at their appointed times 
came into flower as the catalog maker 
had predicted. 
SIMILAR TYPES 
A considerable group of them showed 
both in character and flower a sur¬ 
prising and a somewhat disappointing 
similarity. These are of the same gen¬ 
eral type as the Wooley Dod, and of 
the whole class the Wooley Dod seems 
to me the most desirable member. 
The others come into flower a trifle 
earlier or later and may differ slightly 
in form. The Wooley Dod however 
blooms just when its bright golden color 
is needed to supplement the lavenders 
and purples of the hardy asters and is 
well worth including in any planting de¬ 
signed to carry on through the fall of 
the year. Its good sized clear yellow 
flowers borne on graceful stalks from 
4' to 6' tall, like the russet and 
yellow heliniums seem designed for this 
explicit purpose. Getting a good photo¬ 
graph of it I found a difficult matter. 
The plate and lenses necessary if one is 
to procure a picture which will give 
any idea of its clear bright color are so 
slow working and the flowers so con¬ 
tinually in motion that satisfactory 
pictures are almost impossible to obtain. 
Its one fault and a serious fault it 
is arises from its very strength and 
robustness. Once planted it will straight¬ 
way set out to subdue your whole 
garden. All the while it is waving its 
bloom at you in apparent innocence it 
is stealthily sending its long under¬ 
ground shoots hither and thither in 
preparation for the next season’s cam¬ 
paign. These have a way of burrowing 
beneath the surface and coming up in 
such numbers the following spring that 
drastic control from the very start is 
the only safe method of dealing with 
the Wooley Dod and with several 
other varieties of Helianthus that have 
this annoying habit. Every spring one 
must simply fork out the greater num¬ 
ber of them and—well, I let them dry 
out a bit and put them on the next 
brush fire. The “Great Wooley Dod” 
is well worth having, but don’t let it 
get the start of you. 
THE BEST KINDS 
And now we come to what I consider 
the pick of the Helinathus family, Mol¬ 
lis and Orgyalis, neither of which bears 
much resemblance to the foregoing in 
habit or appearance. The broad, grey¬ 
ish-green, velvety leaves of Mollis lend 
it a quiet distinction and charm. The 
heart-shaped leaves are arranged in 
pairs and have an interesting way of 
folding up against the stalk as evening 
comes on. And this is the only move¬ 
ment I have noticed among the sun¬ 
flowers that might be attributed either 
to the presence or absence of the sun’s 
heat. The commonly held belief that 
the flowers follow the sun and cast on 
their lord when he sets the same look 
that they gave when he rose arises, I 
have been told, from the fact that a 
certain prairie flower sometimes called 
a sunflower has this characteristic. The 
common garden forms at any rate do 
not do so. The pale lemon yellow 
bloom of Helianthus Mollis appears in 
rather loose sprays. The plant’s gen¬ 
eral habit is neat and erect. It grows 
about four feet tall. 
Orgyalis is perhaps the most dis¬ 
tinctive in character of all the sun¬ 
flowers. Its long folded gracefully 
drooping leaves are arranged thickly on 
the tall growing stalks and give the 
plant an almost tropical effect. As it 
grows to a height of four or five feet 
before flowering, which takes place late 
in the fall, it has a distinct value for 
grouping at the back of the border. 
The smallish pale yellow flowers appear 
so very late that here in northern New 
York the frosts are quite likely to de¬ 
stroy them before they come to per¬ 
fection. 
Mollis and Orgyalis show none of the 
pushing and crowding propensities that 
most of the other Hardy Sunflowers 
exhibit. They may be planted with no 
fear that they will overrun the garden 
and become a nuisance. 
During the past year or two we have 
heard considerable about a new acquisi¬ 
tion among the perennial sunflowers, 
Helianthus Angustifolius, introduced as 
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