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Salvia, sp!endens compacta. 



SAPONARIA. 



It is impossible to speak too highly of these charming 

 little plants. They are the longest blooming of all dwarf 

 annuals, and carpet the ground with their pretty, little, 

 star-shaped, pink, rose and white blossoms during the 

 summer and autumn months. Unsurpassed for edgings 

 and ribboning, and produce a fine effect in beds, by their 

 combination of colors. Sow in spring, in open ground. 

 Hardy annual ; six inches high. 



Saponaria, calabrica, deep pink 5 



" " rosea, new 5 



" " alba, white 5 



" mixed 5 



SCABIOTTS— (See Mourning Bride.) 



SCARLET FLAX— (See Linum.) 



SEDTJM. 



A species of low, succulent plants, some of which axe 

 remarkably pretty ; grow readily upon stones, rocks, 



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Sedum, Siebo'dii. 



walls and roofs of houses ; are admirably adapted for 

 the center of hanging baskets. 



Sedum, ceeruleum, the common blue sedum, fre- 

 quently known as Blue Stoaecrop. Hardy 



annual ; six inches high ^o 



Aizoon, bright yellow blossoms; of trailing 

 habit, and thick, succulent, deep green leaves. 



Hardy perennial ; one foot high 13 



^ fabarium, thick masses of pure white flowers. 



Hardy biennial ; one foot high 25 



" Sieboldii, hardy, evergreen creeper, with blue 

 flowers ; fine for babkets ; one-half foot high. .23 



SENSITIVE PLANT-(Mimosa)„ 



An interesting and curious plant, with globular heads 

 of pink flowers, well known for the extreme irritability 

 of its leaves and foot stalks, which close and droop at 

 the slightest touch, or in cloudy, damp weather, and 

 during the night. The plant is most irritable in the 

 greatest heat, and if the upper branches be touched and 

 droop, touching the lower ones, the whole plant will ap- 

 pear as if wilted and dying. Start in hot-bed, in pots, 

 and transplant into a warm situation, six inches apart. 

 Tender annual ; two feet high. 

 Mimosa, pudica 5 



SMIIiAX. 



No climbing plant in cultivation surpasses this for 

 graceful beauty of its foliage. In cut flowers, and for 

 wreaths, &c., it is indispenfable to florists. Its hard 

 texture enables it to be kept several days after being 

 cut, without wilting. Nothing is finer for clothing stat- 

 uettes, vases, &c Soak the seed in warm water twelve 

 hours, and plant in pots, in hot-bed or green-house, in 

 February', and keep in warm, moist place. One plant 

 in a two-inch pot is enough. After they have completed 

 their growth and the foliage beyins to 

 turn yellow, turn the pots on their 

 sides and withold water till August, 



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Saponaria. 



Sedum, fabarium. 



Sedum, caeruleum. 



