[Illustration: HELIANTHUS MULTIFLORUS, SHOWING HABIT OF GROWTH.] ANNUALS. _H. argophyllus_ (white-leaved, not argyrophyllus, silver-leaved, as written in some catalogues).--An annual with woolly leaves, neater and less coarse than H. annuus, with which it is said soon to degenerate in gardens if grown together with it. _H. annuus._--The well known sunflower in endless varieties, one of the most elegant having pale lemon-colored flowers; these, too, liable to pass into the common type if grown in the same garden. [Illustration: HELIANTHUS ORGYALIS, SHOWING HABIT OF GROWTH IN AUTUMN.] _H. debilis var. cucumerifolius._--I have never seen the typical species, but the variety was introduced a few years ago by Mr. W. Thompson, of Ipswich, from whose seed I have grown it. It becomes 4 feet or 5 feet high, with irregularly toothed deltoid leaves and spotted stalks, making a widely branched bush and bearing well-shaped golden flowers more than 3 inches across, with black disks. It crosses with any perennial sunflower that grows near it, simulating their flowers in an annual form. I had a very fine cross with it and H. annuus, but the flowers of this produced no good seed. [Illustration: JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE (HELIANTHUS TUBEROSUS).] PERENNIALS. _H. orgyalis_ (the fathom-high sunflower).--The name is far within the true measure, which is often 9 feet or 10 feet. A very distinct species, increasing very slowly at the root and throwing all its growing efforts upward. The long linear ribbon leaves, often exceeding a foot, spreading in wavy masses round the tall stem, which has a palm-like tuft of them at the summit, are a more ornamental feature than the flowers, which are moderate in size and come late in the axils of the upper leaves. [Illustration: HELIANTHUS ANNUUS GLOBULUS FISTULOSUS.] _H. angustifolius._--A neat and elegant species, which I first raised from seed sent by Mr. W. Thompson, of Ipswich. It has a very branching habit quite from the base like a well-grown bush of the common wallflower. The flowers are abundant, about 2½ inches across, with a black disk. The plant, though a true herb, never comes up in my garden with more than one stalk each year. [Illustration: HELIANTHUS RIGIDUS (SYN. HARPALIUM RIGIDUM).]