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SOL 549 SOR
ous-rooted perennials. To this latter
belongs S. tuberosum, the potato. The
annuals are increased by seeds; the
other species by seeds, cuttings, or
tubers. Light rich soil suits them all.
SOLDANELLA.
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Green-house evergreen shrubs. Ripe
cuttings taken off at a joint. Turfy
loam and sand.
SORRELS. These are Oxalis Acetosella.
Wood Sorrel ; Rumex acetosa,
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Seven species. Garden Sorrel ; R. scutatus, French or
Hardy or half-hardy herbaceous peren- Roman Sorrel
nials. Seeds or division. Peat and Soil and Situation.—They thrive best
loam.
in any garden soil that tends to light-
SOLDEVILLA setosa. Hardy herba- ness rather than tenacity, and is not
ceous perennial. Seed. Common soil. too poor. The situation must be open.
SOLDIER-WOOD. Inga purpurea.
Propagation.—The rumexes are pro-
SOLIDAGO. Golden Rod. Sixtypagated by seed, and all of them by
seven species. Hardy herbaceous perennials,
except S. leucanthemifolia,
parting the roots, both
may be practised from
which modes
tha middle of
which is half-hardy, and S. spuria, a
green-house evergreen. Division. Common
soil.
SOLLYA. Three species. Green-
February until the same period in May,
and by the latter also in September
and. October. The finest plants are
raised by seed, but those from portions
house evergreen climbers. Cuttings.
Loam and peat.
SOLOMON'S SEAL. Convallaria.
SOOT is the volatilized unconsumed
portion of common coal. It is thus
constituted
of the roots are soonest in production.
The seed is best sown in drills, six
or eight inches apart, and half an inch
in depth. When two or three inches
high, the seedlings must be thinned to
three or four inches apart, and those
removed, if required, pricked out at
similar distances. In September or October,
or in the March and April of the
succeeding year, they may be removed
into their tinal stations, in rows twelve
inches apart, each way, or, if the
French, eighteen inches. The only
attention they require down to this
state of their growth, is to be kept clear
of weeds, and to have water given in
moderate quantities after each removal,
until established.
When divisions of the root are em-
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Charcoal .
371
Salts of ammonia
427
potash and soda 24
Oxide of iron
50
Silica
65
Alumina .
31
Sulphate of lime
31
Carbonate of magnesia . 2
It is an excellent manure for peas,
onions, carrots, and probably all garden
crops. An excellent liquid maiiure is
soot mixed with
portion of one
rain water, in the pro-
tablespoonful of soot
to a quart of water, for plants in pots ; ployed, they must be set at once where
but for asparagus, peas, &c., six quarts they are to remain, at the final dis-
of soot to a hogshead of water. It tances above mentioned ; and the same
must never be applied to plants in a attention paid in weeding and watering
state of rest. It succeeds admirably them. Established plants must in a
with bulbs.
S O P II
Gard. Chron.
R A. Fourteen species.
like manner
from weeds.
be
In
kept constantly free
summer, as thoy run
Hardy herbaceous perennials and deci- up to seed, the stalks must be cut down
duoustrees; stove and green-house evergreen
shrubs and trees. The latter in-
as often as is re(]iiired, to encourage
the production of leaves. In autumn
crease by cuttings, the former by divi- and spring, the surface of the ground
sion. S. chinensis and S. japonica, should be gently stirred, and in the
hardy deciduous trees; by layers or former season, a little manure, or in
seeds. Light loamy soil.
S P H R O N I f I S. Three species.
Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood with
preference, a similar proportion of de-.
cayed leaves, turned in. Some gardeners
raise fresh seedlings annually, but
a little moss on the roots.
SORINDEIA madagascariensis.
Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam
a fresh plantation is seldom necessary
oflener than every fourth year ; before
which, however, it must be made, if the
and peat.
SOROCEPHALUS.
plants dwindle
Seven species.! leaves.
or produce diminutive