Golden Rod

Golden Rod (Solidago) - These N. American Composites exterminate valuable plants, and give a coarse, ragged aspect to the border. They are also gross feeders and impoverish the soil. They hold their own, however, in a copse, or a rough open shrubbery among the coarsest vegetation, and the silky seeds of some kinds persist, with a pretty effect, far into the winter. There are nearly Ioo kinds, of which the best are S. Buckleyi, a dwarf species with bluish-green foliage and orange flowers; caesia, another dwarf kind of slender growth with pale yellow flowers; Gattingeri, of good habit, with abundant plume-like sprays; latifolia, a dwarf early kind with broad rounded leaves; odora, of slender growth, with fragrant deep yellow flowers, quite one of the best; rigida, of dwarf erect growth, with downy leaves, fine flowers, and roots which do not run; serotina lepida (gigantea), often 6 feet high, with dark stems and large heads of flower; Shortii, the best of the tall kinds, with spreading, finely-arched heads, very useful for cutting; spectabilis, of medium height, with fragrant, deep yellow flowers, and not too strong at the root; and Virgaurea nana, the neatest of all, with compact heads only a foot high.

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