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seed has to be sown in March in wide-mouthed pots ; the 

 seedlings pricked out early, a few in a pot, to grow into 

 strength, and planted out in May if they are hardy or half- 

 hardy, or potted if they are tender. Even the tender ones 

 may be planted out so that they are potted up early in Sep- 

 tember, and put into frames or greenhouses, or any other 

 contrivance, to prevent the frost from injuring them. The 

 stove A'arieties are not worth notice, and the others may all 

 safely be treated like Geraniums, Verbenas, and other plants 

 for bedding out. S. patens is a fleshy-rooted plant, requiring 

 to be kept dry in winter like a Dahlia root. In dry soils, 

 deeply planted ; it lives, however, in the open borders. 



SANDERSONIA. [Melanthacete.] A beautifd green- 

 house evergreen perennial, with tuberous roots. Sandy loam 

 and peat. Division or seeds. S. aurantiaca, flowers brilliant 

 orange. 



SANDWORT. See Arenaria. 



SANGUISORBA. Great Burnet. [Rosacea^.] Hardy 

 perennials of rather coarse habit, but with elegant foliage. 

 Common soil. Division. 



SANTOLINA. Lavender Cotton. [Compositse.] Hardy 

 evergreen shrubs of neat compact habit. Common soil. 

 Cuttings. 



SANVITALIA. [Compositae.] A procumbent half-hardy 

 annual, requiring the ordinary treatment of half-hardy 

 annuals. Sown in the border or in beds about the beginning 

 of April, it will bloom about July. It is a suitable plant for 

 the edges of beds. S. prociimhens, flowers yellow. 



SAPONARIA. SoAPwoRT. [Caryophyllacese.] Showy 

 hardy plants, consisting of annuals and perennials. Among 

 the latter is S'. officinalis flore-pleno, a vigorous-growing subject 

 of the easiest culture, which, as it propagates by fragments of 

 its roots, is with difficulty extirpated where it has been once 

 introduced, but does not spread very rapidly of itself. Another 

 pretty species, forming indeed a beautiful object on rockwork 

 during summer, but apt to suffer from damp in winter, and 

 therefore requiring to be preserved at that season in a dry 

 frame, is the S. ocymoides, which spreads over the surface of 

 the ground in patches of some size, covered with innumerable 

 rose-coloured stars through the principal part of the summer 



