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SITOLOBIUM. [Polypodiace*.] Ferns, of which some 

 are hardy or greenhouse species. Peat and loam. Division. 

 S. davallioides and S. punctilohum are grown. 



SCIMMIA. [Aurautiacepe.] A fine hardy evergreen 

 shrub, remarkable for its fragrant flowers and coral berries. 

 Good loamy soil. Cuttings, or layers, or seeds. S. Japonica, 

 flowers white. 



SCULL-CAP. See Scutellaria. 



SLIPPERWORT. See Calceolaria. 



SNAPDRAGON. See Antirrhinum. 



SNOWDROP. See Galanthus. 



SNOWFLAKE. See Leucojum. 



SNOWY MESPILUS. See Amelanghier botryapium. 



SOAPWORT. See Saponaria. 



SOLANUM. Nightshade. [Solauaceae.] This very 

 extensive genus comprises plants greatly varied in their habits, 

 and includes stove, greenhouse, and hardy kinds, annuals, 

 perennials, and shrubs. >S'. j)seudo-ccqmcum is grown for its 

 red cherry-like berries in winter ; but the best of all the 

 Solanums for a limited garden is, perhaps, the S. crispum, 

 a kind nearly or quite hardy, succeeding well trained against 

 a wall, and bearing a great profusion of lilac or pale purple 

 flowers. These kinds all grow well in a good loamy compost, 

 and are propagated by cuttings. 8. Amazonicum is a fine 

 stove shrub, with pricldy leaves and purple flowers: it is a 

 free grower in loamy soil, and requires plenty of pot room, 

 and the temperature of a stove. One of the most singular 

 plants of this genus is the Egg plant. 



Egg Plant [Solanum ovlijeruni). — This is the type of a 

 little group which are chietly cultivated for the extraordinary 

 likeness between their fruit and the egg of the domestic fowl. 

 The white and purple are both cultivated to a considerable 

 extent as market plants, and the former is well worth the 

 trouble. The seeds should be sown in heat in March in 

 wide-mouthed pots, and when large enough planted singly 

 in three-inch pots in loam, dung, and peat, equal quantities, 

 and placed in a hotbed. As soon as the pots fill with roots 

 change them to the next size, and continue them in the hot- 

 bed : the nearer they ai-e kept to the glass the better, so that 

 they do not touch. Water them rather freely as they begin 



