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THE ELOWEE GAEDE>". 



you fresh young plants which are not nice about soil ; 

 bur the stool may often be divided into rooted shoots, 

 which is a quicker process. 



Sedwm — Stone-crop, Ginger. "Wall- pepper, Love-chain, 

 Gold-dust, &c. — The hardy species of this genus of suc- 

 culents, mostly with yellow or white flowers, are service- 

 able for rock-work and artificial ruins. The Orpine, S. 

 Telephium. with dull purple flowers, and which attains a 

 height of some eighteen inches, is planted along the roof* 

 ridge of many cottages in Xormandy, where it looks like 

 the bristles on the back of an angry boar. These hardy 

 Sedums may be regarded rather as convenient materials 

 in the hands of the landscape-gardener, than as real 

 garden flowers. S. Sieboldii, amongst the greenhouse 

 species, is an elegant plant to suspend in a pot or 

 basket. 



Sfi a pel rag on . — See An tirrli in u m . 



Solomon? 8 Seal. — See Lily of the Ya.lley. 



Spiderwort — Tradescaniia Tirginica. — An old peren- 

 nial border plant, with blue flowers varying to purple, in 

 either case occasionally more or less double. Will grow 

 almost anywhere, and is increased by dividing the stool. 

 There are hothouse species, one of which, T. discolor, is 

 mainly grown for the beauty of its leaves. 



Sweet William. — See London Tuff. 



TJirift — Armeria vulgaris — In French, Gazon d ; Es- 

 pagne, Spanish Turf, or, more poetically. Gazon 

 d ; Oiympe, Turf of Olympus. — The English name is 

 derived from its thriftiness in towns and confined situa- 

 tions, though its native home is on the grassy tops of cliffs 

 whose base is washed by the waves, and whose summit 

 is exposed to the sunshine and wind. Thrift is mainly 

 employed for edgings, for which it is well adapted by its 

 grasslike tufts of leaves and its numerous heads of pretty 

 pink flowers. In the wild state even, the depth of their 

 tint varies greatly ; in gardens, there is a variety with 

 deep crimson flowers, which is much more ornamental 

 than the common sort. Propagate by division of the 

 stool. Tor neatness 5 sake, as soon as the flowers are 



