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dy plants, consisting of annuals and perennials. Among the 

 latter is S. officinalis flore plcno, a vigorous growing subject 

 of the easiest culture, which, as it propagates by fragments 

 of its roots, is with difficulty extirpated where it has been 

 once introduced, but does not spread very rapidly of itself. 

 Another pretty species, forming indeed a beautiful object 

 on rock-work during summer, but apt to suffer from damp 

 in winter, and therefore requiring to be preserved at that 

 season in a dry frame, is S. oeymoides, which spreads over 

 the surface of the ground in patches of some size, covered 

 with innumerable rose-colored stars, through the principal 

 part of the summer season. This kind is best increased by 

 seeds, when they are to be procured : these should be 

 sown in May or June, and the young plants potted singly, 

 using a compost of sandy loam, and keeping them sheltered 

 from much wet and damp, in cool frames, through the first 

 winter, when they may be planted out. When seeds are not 

 to be had, cuttings must be planted in June or July, in sandy 

 soil, under hand-lights, and these young plants wintered 

 as before. A store of young plants should be so preserved 

 annually. For a dwarf bed in a flower-garden, this species 

 is well suited, on account of the mass in which its blossoms 

 are produced : when so planted, the surface should be cov- 

 ered with stones, over which the branches of the Saponaria 

 delight to spread. S. calabrica is a beautiful annual, of very 

 much the same character in other respects. 



S. ccespitosa (tufted) ; half-hardy perennial ; 6 inches ; flowers 

 red, in July; Pyrenees; 1820. S. ocymoides (basil-like); half- 

 hardy perennial ; 6 inches ; flowers rose, in June ; Europe ; 

 1768. 6". officinalis flore plcno (officinal) ; hardy perennial ; 3 

 feet ; flowers pink, in July ; gardens. S. prostrata (prostrate) ; 

 half-hardy perennial ; 6 inches ; flowers rose, in July ; Pyre- 

 nees ; 1824. 



SARRACENIA. Side-saddle Flower. [Sarracenise.] Hardy 



