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purple, delicate buff, and all with pencillings or flushes of deeper 

 colour. Being tender annuals, they are best started indoors and 

 set out in late May in a sunny situation. 

 Salvia. 



The scarlet Salvia is too well known to need description. Its 

 colour is the most difficult to harmonize and the most recklessly 

 used in the floral kingdom. Divers coloured houses rise from the 

 midst of its surrounding flames, beds of it break up many a fair 

 stretch of lawn, and it utterly cows and overpowers flowers of less 

 strong colour in its neighbourhood. It never tempts me, neither 

 Pride of Zurich, Bonfire, nor the rest, but they may easily be had by 

 planting the seed indoors in February or March, or young plants 

 may be purchased from any florist. The variety of Salvia hormi- 

 num called Bluebeard is quite a different matter, the rich blue-pur- 

 ple of its terminal bracts being long lasting and most valuable in the 

 garden. The seeds are hardy and may be sown out of doors very 

 early. 

 Sanvitalia procumbens, h. a. 



A small, indomitable trailer, quite smothered from early July 

 until frost with tiny sunflower-like blossoms. The colour is a trifle 

 raw, but the whole plant is so thrifty and cheerful that one cannot 

 but enjoy it. Good for edging. 

 Saponaria calabrica, h. a., Soapwort. 



This plant is as cheerfully pink as the foregoing is cheerfully 

 yellow and resembles it in its trailing habit. It resists dry weather 

 very well, and where a pink edging is wanted nothing could be 

 prettier. 

 Scabiosa, h. a., Sweet Scabius. 



This is a popular and easily cultivated annual very nice for cut- 

 ting as the pretty flower heads are borne on long stems and come 

 in a large variety of charming colours, among which may be found 

 maroon so dark as to be almost black, besides mauve, scarlet, pink, 

 buff, white, and others. Fragrant. 

 Silene pendula rosea, h. a., four to six inches. 



This is a nice little plant for edging, which, when covered with its 

 bright pink blossoms, is very gay and pretty indeed. If it is wanted 

 all through the summer several sowings should be made. 



