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BEAUTIFUL GARDEN FLOWERS. 
season, the seeds must be sown in heat about February, 
the young plants being pricked out and hardened off 
by the end of May. The common purple or Sweet 
Scabious, also known as the “Mourning Widow” 
(S. atropurpurea) is a very handsome European annual, 
2 to 3 feet high, with ovate lance-shaped, divided, and 
coarsely-toothed leaves. The sweet-scented, deep 
crimson-purple flowers appear in summer, and are 
useful for cutting. There are now many varieties of it, 
having various shades of crimson, purple, pink, yellow, 
and pure white blossoms. 
SEDUM (Stonecrop). — A large genus of ornamental 
and easily-grown plants. The dwarf or mossy section, 
like the common Stonecrop, S. acre, S. anglicnm, and 
several others, flourish on old walls, ruins, or rockeries, 
and are easily multiplied by division. S. rupestre, 
with dense cylindrical masses of narrow glaucous- 
green leaves and yellow blossoms, is a good rock plant. 
There is a peculiar fasciated form called monstrosum, 
in which the stems are twisted and flattened. Easily 
increased by division. Among the kinds, however, 
suitable for the flower border, the following are the 
most attractive : — 8. roseum, a fleshy-looking British 
plant, 6 to 18 inches high, with yellow or purplish 
flowers from May to August ; 8. Siebolcli, from Japan, 
a pretty trailing kind with roundish bluish-green leaves 
in threes, and numerous pinky flowers in summer. 
The variegated variety with creamy-white marking on 
the leaves is more tender and requires protection in 
the colder parts of the country. S. spectabile, (or 
8. Fabaria ) is a strong and perfectly hardy Japanese 
perennial, 1 to 2 feet high, with bluntly-toothed 
