and purple. _Park. Parad. p. 390._

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The Candy-Tuft is one of those annuals which contribute generally to
enliven the borders of the flower-garden: its usual colour is a pale
purple, there is also a white variety of it, and another with deep but
very bright purple flowers, the most desirable of the three, but where a
garden is large enough to admit of it, all the varieties may be sown.

For want of due discrimination, as MILLER has before observed,
Nurserymen are apt to collect and mix with this species the seeds of
another, viz. the _amara_, and which persons not much skilled in plants
consider as the white variety; but a slight attention will discover it
to be a very different plant, having smaller and longer heads, differing
also in the shape of its leaves and seed vessels, too trifling a plant
indeed to appear in the flower-garden.

Purple Candy-Tuft is a native of the South of Europe, and flowers in
June and July: it should be sown in the spring, on the borders of the
flower-garden in patches; when the plants come up, a few only should be
left, as they will thereby become stronger, produce more flowers, and be
of longer duration.




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CASSIA CHAMÆCRISTA. DWARF CASSIA.