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dered fit for use by repeated wash- 
ings with fresh water; but this ex- 
pense can only be advisable when 
no other sand can be procured. In- 
various parts of the country there 
is a lead-coloured soft sandstone, 
which when broken, and reduced to 
a state of powder, forms an excel- 
lent sand, both for mixing with soil 
and striking cuttings. 
SANDAL-woop.—See Sa’'NTALUM. 
Saneuina‘ria. — Papaverdcee. — 
Puccoon, or Canadian Bloodwort. 
A very pretty little plant with | 
white ranunculus-shaped flowers. 
It should be grown in a light sandy 
soil, and it has a very good effect 
as fillmg one of the beds of a geo- 
metric flower-garden. The plants 
are increased by seed or division of 
the roots. 
Sancuiso’rBa.— Rosdcee.—Great 
Burnet. Some of the exotic kinds 
are ornamental; they are hardy 
herbaceous plants, and should be 
grown in light rich soil. ‘They are 
increased by dividing the root. 
Sa/nraLum.—Santaldcee.— San- 
dal-wood. Stove plants, natives of 
the East Indies, and one species 
from New Holland. The flowers 
of S. album, the true Sandal-wood, 
are small, and are produced in 
spikes or racemes; but the great 
value of the plant consists in the 
fragrance of the wood, which is so 
great that the wood is burmed for 
incense, &c., and is said to be de- 
structive to all noxious insects. The 
plants should be grown in light 
sandy loam, and kept rather dry ; 
but the wood has comparatively 
very little fragrance in this country. 
Sanroui'na.—Composite.— Lav- 
ender cotton. Evergreen dwarf 
shrubs, which will grow in any 
common garden soil, and which are 
propagated by cuttings. 
Sanvita‘nra. — Composite, — A 
beautiful little Mexican annual, well 
adapted from its dwarf stature and 
compact habit of growth for cover- 
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ing a bed in a geometric flower- 
garden. ‘The flowers are large in 
proportion to the size of the plant, 
and they are of a rich brown and 
yellow. It is quite hardy, and one 
requires sowing in March or Apri 
in the open border. 
Sapi’Npus. — Sapindacee.— The 
Soap berry. Natives of the East 
and West Indies, which require a 
stove in England. They should be 
grown in loam and peat, and they are 
propagated by cuttings. 
Sapona‘ria.—Silenacee or Cary- 
ophyllacee.—Soapwort. Very beau- 
tiful little plants, annual and peren- 
nial, greatly resembling some of the 
kinds of Lychnis. All the kinds 
of Saponaria look very well on rock- 
work, covering it with a profusion 
of beautiful little pink flowers. The 
handsomest kinds are S. ecyméides, 
an S. caldbrica, for the perennials ; 
and S. vaccaria, and S. perfoliata 
forthe annuals. ‘They will all grow 
in any common garden soil. 
Sa/racna.—Solandcee.— Annual 
and perennial plants, natives of /’ 
Mexico and Peru. S. viscosa, which 
is the handsomest species, has rather 
large cream-coloured flowers beau- 
tifully marked in the centre with 
olive dots, and which are succeeded 
by large red berries. It may be 
treated as a half-hardy annual ; of 
the roots, which are tuberous, may 
be taken up, and kept dry during 
winter like those of the Marvel of 
Peru, and other similar plants. 
When treated as an annual, the 
seeds should be sown on a slight 
hotbed in February, and the young 
plants es! into the open border 
in May. 
Sarca/ntuus.— Orchidaceae. 
East Indian Epiphyteitigeerly al- 
lied to Vanda, which should be 
crown on logs of wood.—See Or- 
cHIpEous Epirnyres. 
Sa naacu'nia.—Sarracenedecale 
The American Pitcher-plant, or 
Side-saddle flower. Bog plantg 
