A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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" If Dr. Brinckle's opinion should be
coiitirmed by further observation, he
will have contributed an invaluable va-
riety of this delicious fruit."
—
Rural
Register.
STRAWBERRY BLITE. Blitum.
STRAWBERRY SPINACH. Blitum.
STRAWBERRY TREE. Arbutus.
STRELITZIA. Eight species. Stove
herbaceous perennials. Suckers. Turfy
loam.
STREPTANTHERA. Two species.
Green-house bulbous perennials. Offsets.
Loam and peat.
STREPTANTHUS. Two species.
Hardy annuals. Seeds. Common soil.
STREPTIUM asperum. Stove herbaceous
perennial. Cuttings. Loam and
peat.
STREPTOCARPUS rexii. Stove
herbaceous perennial. Division. Rich
soil and vegetable mould.
STREPTOPUS. Eive species. Herbaceous
perennials; all hardy except S.
simplex, which belongs to the greenhouse.
Seeds or division. Light soil.
STROBILANTHES Sabiniaria. Stove
evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Light rich
soil.
STROPANTHUS. Three species.
Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy
loam and peat.
STRIMARLA. Ten species. Greenhouse
bulbous perennials. Offsets. Sandy
loam.
STRUTHIOLA. Fifteen species.
Green-house evergreen shrubs. Sandy
peat.
STRUTHIOPTERIS. Two species.
Ferns. Hardy herbaceous perennials.
Division. Loam and peat.
STRYCHNOS. Six species. Stove
evergreen trees. S. colubrina is a
climber. Half-ripe cuttini^s and seeds.
Loam and sandy peat. I^ux vomica is
one of the species.
STYLIDIUM. Nine species. Greenhouse
herbaceous perennials or evergreen
shrubs. The latter increases by
cuttings, a few of the herbaceous by
division, but chiefly by seeds. Sandy
loam and peat suit them all.
deciduous shrubs. S. officinale produces
the balsam of storax. Layers. Light
soil.
SUCCORY, CHICORY, or WILD
ENDIVE. Cichorium iiitybus. Although
this hardy perennial plant is much used
on the Continent in salads, yet it has
never been employed to any extent for
that purpose in Britain.
Soil and Situation.—Like endive, for
the main crops it requires a rich light
soil, and for the earlier sowings a moister
one, in every instance having an open
situation allotted to it.
Solving must be annually; for, although
it is a perennial , yet, after being
cut from two or three times, the radical
leaves become bitter and worthless.
INIr. Oldaker says, it should be sown at
the end of June, or early in July ; but
L'Quintinye recommends it to be performed
in the beginning of March; and
it may be performed, for successive
crops, between the two periods mentioned
by the above writers, in the same
manner as endive, and also like that
salad herb in small portions at a time,
the earliest sowings being very liable to
run to seed. Sow moderately thick, in
the same manner as endive, the directions
for cultivating which are equally
applicable in every other particular.
Cultivation.—When the plants begin
to cover the ground, they are thinned to
nine inches apart ; and those removed
planted out at similar distances. They
require to be kept very clear of weeds ;
and if the leaves grow very luxuriant,
and shade the roots much, they must
be cutoff within an inch of the ground.
Those grown from sowings antecedent
to June, when of nearly full growth,
which they arrive at in about four
months from the insertion of the seed,
must have all their leaves trimmed
away, so as not to injure their hearts,
and then covered over thick with sand,
ashes, or long litier. By this treatment,
those fresh leaves which are produced
become etiolated and crisp, losing their
bitterness. Those wliich arise from the
sowings of June and July, must, at the
end of September, or early in October,
STYPANDRA. Five species. Green-
house herbaceous perennials. S./ru- be raised, and planted very close, by the
tescens an evergreen shrub. Division. dibble, in pots or boxes, having their
Sandy loam and peat.
STYPHELIA. Eight species. Greenleaves
trimmed as before directed, and
their roots shortened previous to plant-
house evergreen shrubs. Young cuttings.
Sandy peat and sandy loam.
ing. Water must be given moderately
in dry weather, until they are establish-
STYRAX. Four species. Hardy ed, and shelter, if frosts occur, by a