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the common Hart's-tongue Fern, S. vulgare, sports is very 

 remarkable. 



SCUTELLARIA. Scull-cap. [Scrophulariaceae.] A 

 rather numerous family of dwarf herbaceous perennials, some 

 of which are very ornamental. They are mostly hardy, 

 showy, and worth growing in the mixed flower-borders, often 

 requiring a dryish situation. They are not particular as to 

 soil, and are readily increased by division, or, where the roots 

 are coarse and indivisible, by planting as cuttings the young 

 shoots produced from the crowns of the roots in spring. 

 There is another set requiring greenhouse protection, at least 

 in winter. These are increased by cuttings planted in sandy 

 soil, and placed in a mild hotbed, and the plants should be 

 potted into rich soil of loam and leaf-mould if grown in pots ; 

 l3ut they may be planted out in a warm situation in the 

 flower garden by the beginning of June, to come into flower 

 about August. 



SCYPHANTHUS. [Loasaceae.] A handsome twining 

 plant, related to Loasa, and best treated as an annual. It 

 may be grown in pots or trellises, or on the rafters of the 

 greenhouse, or may be planted out for the summer in warm 

 situations where the soil is light and dryish. In pots it 

 should be grown in a sandy mixture of loam and leaf-mould. 

 The seeds should be sown in March in a mild hotbed, and 

 nursed on till they are able to bear the temperature of the 

 greenhouse, after which they may be planted out. They may 

 also be sown in IMay in the borders. 



SEA Lxi VENDER. See Statice. 



SEDUM. Stonecrop. [Crassulacese.] A large family 

 of succulents, comprising a great many kinds which are hardy 

 herbs. They are well adapted for covering rockwork, or for 

 pot culture along with alpines. They are of the easiest 

 culture, growing in almost any soil not retentive of moisture, 

 but preferring that which is sandy. When established on 

 rockwork they grow almost without soil. A veiy handsome 

 half-hardy kind, somewhat shrubby-habited, is S. Sieholdii, 

 one of the prettiest of the species, having very glaucous 

 leaves, and large heads of pink flowers : it forms a large tuft 

 when grown in a large pot, and should have a light open soil. 

 Increased by division. 



