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and perfect their seed in the course of dung must be added ; but decayed
the two following months. leaves are preferable, and sea- weed
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SCUTELLARIA. Twenty-seven still more so. Common salt is a very
species. Hardy herbaceous perennials, beneficial application, either applied
»S. humilis is a half-hardy. S. haienensis,
a stove herbaceous perennial. .Seeds
and division. Common soil. The shrubby
species increase by young cuttings.
SCYPHANTHUS grandiflorus and
elegans. Hardy twining annuals. Seeds.
Sandy loam.
SCYTHE. This mowing implement
being confined, in the garden, to cutting
the fine short grass of lawns, re-
dry, in the spring, in the proportion of
twenty or thirty bushels per acre, or by
occcasional waterings, with a solution,
containing four ounces in the gallon,
round every stool during the spring.
The situation cannot be too open and
free from trees.
Propagation is both from seed and
slips of the root. The first is the best
mode ; for, although from slips it may
quires to be much sharper than that be obtained with greater certainty, yet
used in cutting the coarser grasses, the plants arising from seed are the
which stand up more firmly to the strongest and longest lived. Sow from
scythe. It is also necessary that the October to the commencement of April;
mowers should not score the grass, that but the best time for inserting it is
is, should not leave the mark of each during January or February. Leave
stroke of the scythe, which has a very the plants where raised ; and, to guard
unsightly appearance; to prevent which, against failure, insert the seed in patchhave
the scythe laid out ratlier wider, es of six or twelve seeds, each six
an inch or two beyond heel and toe, inches apart, and the patches two feet
especially for very short grass; and ' in asunder. If intended for transplanting,
mowing, keep the point rather out, and the seed may be sown in drills twelve
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do not draw that part too fast toward, inches asunder ; in either case it must
gathering the grass neatly to the left in not be buried more than two inches bea
range; and having mowed to the end low the surface ; and it is a good pracof
the swaith, mow it lightly back again, tice, previous to inserting it, to bruise
to trim off all scores, and other irregu- the outer coat of the seed, without inlarities,
unavoidably left the first time. jurmg its vegetating power, as by this
—Abercrombie.
treatment the germination is accele-
SEA-BUCKTHORN Ilippophce.
rated. The plants will in general
SEAFORTHIA elegans. Stove palm. make their appearance in four or five
Seed. Turfy loam and sand.
SEA-HEATH. Frankenia.
SEA-HOLLY. Eryngium.
SEA-KALE.' Crambe Maritima.
Soil and Situation,—A light mode-
months, never sooner than six weeks ;
but, on the other hand, the seed will
sometimes remain twelve mouths before
it vegetates.
The best time for increasing it by
rately rich soil, on a dry substratum, slips is in March. Rooted suckers may
be detached from established plants ;
suits it best, though in any dry soil it
will succeed. A bed may be composed
for it of one-half drift sand, one-third
rich loam, and one-third small gravel.
road stuff" or coal-ashes; if the loam is j
poor, a little well-rotted dung or decayed
leaves being added. The soil
must be deep, so that the roots can
penetrate without being immersed in
water, which invariably causes their
decay. The depth should not be less
The
or
their roots, which have attained the
thickness of the third finger, be cut into
lengths, each having at least two eyes.
cuttings must be inserted in an up-
right position, two or three inches beneath
the surface. It is best to plant
two together, to obviate the danger of
failure, at two feet apart, to remain.
Some persons, from a desire to save a
year, recommend yearling plants to be
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than two feet and a half; and if not so obtained and inserted in February or
naturally, worked to it by trenching.
If at all tenacious, this opportunity may
March ; but as the shoots ought not to
be cut for use the first season after
be taken to mix with itdrift or sea-sand, planting, the object is not attained, for
so as to reduce it to a friable texture, seedlings may be cut from the second
If wet it must be drained, so that water year.
never shall stand within three feet of The beds should be laid out three
feet wide, and a two feet alley between
the surface. If poor, well putrefied j