Sow Sweet Scabious in July 
Scabiosa atro-purpurea [Sweet Scabious). 
— Very beautiful garden plants, best grown as 
hardy biennials, sown in July. They are about 
2 1 feet high ; the large blooms, on long stalks, 
being in various shades of rich crimson as well 
as lilac and white. Azure Fairy, a pale lavender- 
coloured variety, and Snowball, pure white, are 
specially beautiful. It can also be sown out of 
doors in April where it is to bloom, or be treated 
as a half-yearly annual. It is excellent as a cut 
flower. 
Schizanthus pinnatus ; h.a. ; 18 inches ; 
purplish and yellow. — This and 5 . hybridus 
grandiflorus are the kinds most suitable for 
treatment as hardy annuals. The plants are 
about 18 inches high. Of S. hybridus grandi- 
florus a strain named Dr. Badger’s hybrids are 
fine plants. S. retusus and its variant S. 
Grahami, rose and orange, and 5 . Wisetonensis, 
paler, with rose - and - yellow centre, are more 
suitable for pot work in the conservatory, for 
which use they are sown in August and wintered 
in a cold frame. Grown as half-hardy annuals, 
they are sown in February in heat, and treated 
as usual. 
Silene pendula rosea ; h.a. ; 9 inches ; 
pink or rose. — Much used as a spring bedding 
plant, sown in September, preferably where it 
is to bloom ; or it may be treated as an ordinary 
annual. 
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