SCOPOLIA. 



summer, and all are to be raised from seed, and all will like (and some 

 demand) a sunny and well-drained place. 



Schivereckia podolica stands quite close to Draba, but the 

 flowers are of pure and brilliant white, borne in bunches on leafy stems 

 of 5 or 6 inches, above rosettes of silver foliage, in the spring. Seed, 

 and a sunny place. An improvement of this is Sch. Bornmuelleri, 

 which is no less soft and silky, but even tinier in habit — only about 

 2 inches high, and much more profuse in flower. Sch. iberidea is 

 Ptiloirichum cappadocicum, q.v. 



Schizocodon soldanelloeides. — This is Iwa-kagami, the 

 Mirror of the Mountain ; sometimes it comes in from Japan clinging 

 round the root of some collected Azalea, torn from the mossy woodland 

 places where it lives among the rocks ; or may be seen in the flower- 

 fairs of Tokio, in forms that make the gardener's heart go dry with 

 longing, so bushy and stalwart are they in their tufts of rounded 

 leather^ foliage, deeply, darkly, beautifully glossy green ; and so noble 

 in tho port of their 9-inch stems, beset with hanging wide bells, fluffily 

 fringy, of sweet shell-pink, flushed and lined inside with blurs of ruby 

 crimson. It is the most glorious of woodlanders ever seen, but in 

 England, grow it never so widely — and in the Wisley wood there is a 

 mass a yard across — neither stems nor leaves have learned to repeat 

 that free and stately carriage, but incline to remain a little stunted and 

 huddled and screwed. The difficulty of its culture is that of Pyrola's 

 also, and so many other woody-fibred woodland species — the difficulty 

 of getting good rootage and established plants to start with. But, 

 if this can be achieved, Schizocodon will thrive quite readily in light 

 rich soil consisting almost wholly of leaf -mould, mixed with stones, in 

 situations as shady, for choice, as you can find. It blooms in early 

 summer, and may be raised from seed by dint of the greatest care. 

 There is one other species ; Sch. ilicifolius is probably distinct, with 

 much more violent holly-like toothing to the leaves, which in Sch. 

 soldanelloeides are much rounder in outline and smaller and more regular 

 in the toothing. Ilicifolius is also frailer and paler ; and there is also 

 an alpine form of the type, with only a dim serration to the leaves. 



Scillas are dealt with faithfully and descriptively in catalogues. 



Scoliopus Bigelowii is a Rocky Mountain plant, standing near 

 the Dog's Tooth Violet, with the same marbled foliage, and a flower of 

 green and pink, standing solitary on a stem of 5 or 6 inches. It blooms 

 with Erythronium, and may have the same treatment. 



Scopolia. — These are strange things, attaining 12 or 15 inches, 

 and producing, very early in the season, abundant big bells, like a 

 Belladonna's, of lurid metallic browns and purples, most curious and 



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