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ties, — leaving out tlie specific name of Sedum, — and giving the name only of 

 the variety. 



"Acre'" is a dwarf, but a strong, close creeper, and a yellow flower all sea- 

 son, that at once gave it the name of Gold ]Just Plant. "Aizoon" has large 

 and long foliage, yellow flowers in June. ''Album" has small foliage, pure 

 •white flowers in June and July. " Atropurpurcum " has dark red foliage, and 

 flowers in x\ugust and September. "Pallidum'' lias flowers of a pale reddish 

 brown in July and August. "Carneum variegatum *' has variegated foliage. 

 "Keflexum" is very dwarf, flowers of straw color in June. "Elegans" and 

 "Ewersii" both have small foliage and yellow flowers in June. ''Kamtschat- 

 icum'' is lance-leaved, flowers in June and July. "Villosum" is very dwarf 

 with white flowers. "Sieboldii" has rose flowers in August and September. 

 *'Sieboldii variegata," like Sieboldii, only its foliage has its edge of a creamy 

 yellow. ''Telephium" has dark red luxuriant foliage, with pink flowers in 

 August and September. "Tclcphium ;ilI)ifolium '" has light foliage with red 

 flowers in August and September. "Telcphium ])urpureum"- lias flowers and 

 foliage of a purplish violet tinge ; blooms in August. "Cruceatum" has light 

 foliage with white flowers in July. ''Hybridum" has small foliage, with pale 

 yellow flowers in July. "Populifolium" has creamy white flowers in August 

 and September. " liobustum" has a curious-shaj)ed foliage, flowers in June. 

 ''Eodigasi" is new; said to be fine. "Fabaria" has large heads of white 

 flowers in August and September. ''Azurcum" is a free spreading sort, with, 

 flowers of a bluish or violet shade. " Purpurascus" is one that should be 

 grown in the center or back ground of a bed ; it is purpli.sh and blooms in July, 



Some of the Sempervivums and the Echeveria, also, are valuable to mingle in 

 a bed of Sedums. They are mainly of note from their broad distinct foliage. 



F. P. Elliott. 



VEKBENAS AS ANNUALS. 



I have been very successful with verbenas treated in this way, says a writer 

 in the Garden. I purchased seeds of the auricula-eyed varieties, but instead of 

 treating them as hardy annuals I sowed the seed in pans at the end of February, 

 placed them in a mild hot-bed, and when the seedlings were large enough to 

 handle I picked them off into other pans, and returned them to the hot-bed 

 until they were well established. I then gradually hardened them ofl, ]flanted 

 them out in beds at the end of May, and I was never better pleased with any 

 plants which I ever grew. Their colors were varied and rich, and I do not 

 know of any other flower that would have made so gay a bed as these auricula- 

 eyed verbenas. I consider beds of mixed seedlings, kept well-pegged down, to- 

 be preferable to beds of any one particular kind or color. Tliis is the way to 

 secure good showy plants. In consequence of the continued deterioration of 

 the constitution of the verbena, and the attack of the rust, they are more diffi- 

 cult to grow from cuttings than formerly. Kaising from seed for a time maj 

 give a stronger race of plants than wc have had f(n- some years past. 



