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ALL kinds of stonecrop possess peculiar attractions 



for bees and butterflies, owing to their 



Stonecrops 

 abundant secretion of honey. Among 



the summer flowering species the crimson variety of 

 Sedum spurium is the most showy, and should be 

 planted plentifully near beehives. But at this 

 season of the year one of the tall-growing kinds, 

 Sedvm spectabile, is by far the handsomest. It is 

 the latest to flower, and its great flat rosy corymbs 

 are irresistible to that splendid autumn butterfly, 

 the red admiral. I have mentioned already how 

 plentiful butterflies of various sorts have been this 

 season (1895). Well, this morning I have been 

 watching a number of these robust insects busy on 

 the large stonecrop so busy as to allow me to use 

 a lens on them. There were no less than sixteen 

 admirals at work on one group of spectabile stone- 

 crop. The honey-bees, however, interfered with 



