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and pretty long before it flowers, from its dense bush of glau- 

 cous leaves ; it has been gradually making way in our gardens 

 under the names of S. Fabarium, Fabaria, and Fabarinum, all 

 of which are wrong. It was very properly named .i". spectabile 

 by M. Boreau, curator of the Botanic Gardens at Angers, who 

 has paid much attention to the group to which it belongs. Most 

 valuable for association with hardy plants in beds, for use around 

 shrubberies, as a pot-plant, a first-class border-plant, and also 

 for banks, or grouped with the most vigorous subjects in the 

 rougher parts of the rock-garden. It begins to push up its fleshy 

 glaucous shoots in the very dawn of spring, keeps growing on all 

 through the early summer, opens its flowers in early autumn, and 

 continues in full perfection till the end of that season, worthily 

 associating with such fine, autumn-flowering, hardy plants as 

 the Tritomas, white Japan Anemone, and the broad-leaved Sea 

 Lavender. The plant is one of the easiest to propagate and 

 grow that has been introduced to this country, and forms round, 

 sturdy, bush-like tufts of vegetation, eighteen inches or more 

 high when well estabhshed in the full sun. A native of Japan. 



SEDUM SPURIUM.— /"ar//^ Stonecrop. 



Several kinds of Sedum, with large, flat, crenate leaves, occur 

 in our gardens, of which this is much the best, its rosy-purple 

 corymbs of flowers being handsome compared to the dull whitish 

 flowers of allied kinds. A native of the Caucasus ; exceedingly 

 well suited for forming edgings, the margin of a mixed border, 

 or the rockwork, and not at all sufficiently grown in gardens. 

 It is of the easiest culture and propagation, and blooms late in 

 summer, and often through the autumn. The leaves are slightly 

 ciliated. 



The preceding are the most distinct and ornamental kinds 

 in cultivation. The pretty.^, caruleum is an annual, and ^. 

 carneum. variegatum not hardy enough to stand our winters. 

 Several Sedums with a monstrous development of stem, or 

 what in botanical language is called fasciation, are in our 

 gardens : .$■. monstrosum, cristatum, and refiexum moiistrosum, 

 to wit. The following is an enumeration of other species, or 

 reputed species, now in cultivation in this country, the most 

 desirable being marked with an asterisk. They are almost 



