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BEAUTIFUL GARDEN FLOWERS. 
1 to 2 feet high, with crimson stems and five to seven 
lobed leaves with sharply serrated margins. The 
brilliant crimson flowers are borne in large flattish 
clusters from June to August. The variety alba 
has more numerous white flowers, and is a 
dwarfer plant. 8. TJlmaria is a native Meadow 
Sweet, 2 to 4 feet high, the pinnate leaves of which 
are whitish and downy beneath. The white blossoms 
are borne in branched trusses from June to August, 
and in the variety flore jdeno they are double. There 
is a pretty form in which the leaves are variegated 
with green, white, and yellow. 8. venusta grows 4 to 
5 feet high, and has rosy flowers in June. 
STACHYS grandiflora ( Betonica grand, i flora ). — A 
hairy perennial about 1 foot high, with wrinkled ovate 
leaves, and beautiful reddish-violet blossoms in erect 
spikes from May to July. Increased by division. 
STATICE lat.ifolia. — This is the best of the hardy 
Sea Lavenders. It has large oblong-elliptic wavy 
leaves and immense numbers of pale lilac-blue flowers 
in large flattish clusters in July and August. The 
white-flowered variety alba is also a charming plant. 
Ordinary good garden soil will suit them, and tbey 
may be increased by division after flowering ; or better 
still, pieces of the roots, about 2 inches long, may be 
covered with about an inch of sandy soil and placed in 
a cold frame any time during October, but not later. 
SYMPHYANDRA Hoffmanni. — A rather pretty 
biennial, 1 to feet high, with lance-shaped sharply- 
toothed leaves, and large creamy-white tumbler-like 
blossoms, bearded within, drooping from the stems 
from July to September. It may be raised from 
