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There were new flowers planted, too, among them gomphrena, ageratum, pansies and cosmos.

They learned that cosmos must be picked in bud, ageratum is less delicate than bachelor’s buttons, and the sappy, sticky calendulas stems should be booted from their bouquets.

There is the red, white and blue table with blue and white ageratum and red and white vinca.

But our gardens owe to this family innumerable beautiful and showy plants such as the China aster, the chrysanthemum, the cosmos, zinnia, dahlia, ageratum, gaillardia, coreopsis, sunflower, etc., etc.

Eupatorium—Thoroughwort Two forms are in the market—E. ageratoides, bearing numerous small white flowers in late summer, and E. cœlestinum, with light blue flowers similar to the ageratum.