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SCHIZANTHUS. 367 SCILLA. 
flowers of Schinus Milli, the com- 
monest species, are small and of a 
yellowish green; but they are suc- 
ceeded by hemes of beautiful rose | much larger in the open ground, 
a gh 
colour, and y polished. The | and the flowers are finer, if the soil 
leaves are impari-pinnate and very | be sufficiently rich and hght; but 
handsome, and they have the same | care should be taken to plant them 
peculiarity as those of the Duvaua. | in a sheltered situation, or to tie 
(See Duvau‘sa.) S. Mili was first | them to stakes, as the stems are 
considered a stove plant; it was} very brittle and very liable to be 
broken of by high winds. The 
afterwards transferred to the green- | 
house, and it is now found to suc- | principal kinds of Schizanthus are 
ceed in the open air. It was intro-| S. pinndtus, with its varieties, all 
duced in 1597, but it was very | of which have purplish flowers ; 
searce till about 1839, when it was | §. retizsus with scarlet and yellow 
first tried in the open ground. It! flowers; and S. Priestii, with 
will grow in any common garden | white and yellow flowers. Of these, 
soil; and it only requires a slight) S. pinndtus and its allied species 
| plants should be removed into the 
open air in May, when they will 
flower in autumn. The plants are 
protection during hard frosts. 
Scuiza'/npRs.—-Menispermdacee.-— 
A climbing or trailing half-hardy 
shrub, with scarlet flowers, nearly 
allied to Cocculus indicus. For the 
culture, see Co’ccunus. © 
Scuiza'ntHus. — Solandcee, or 
Scrophularinee.—A genus of very 
_ beautiful half-hardy annual flowers, 
which may be either sown in au-| 
or variety, S. porrigens, are the 
hardiest. 
Scuizore'TaLon. — Cructfere. — 
An annual flower, with curiously 
cut petals, and a strong tap root. 
It is rather dificult to grow, as it 
does not bear transplanting well, 
unless when quite young, and it 
requires a deep free soil for its de- 
scending root. It should be sown 
tumn or spring. If wanted to flower | in spring, and if possible, where it is 
in spring, the seed should be sown | 
in August or September as soon as 
to remain. 
Scro‘r1a. — Legumindse—Cape 
it is ripe, in light rich mould; and| shrubs with very showy flowers, 
the young plants should be kept in |‘which may be kept in a green- 
well-drained pets in a frame or| house during the greater part of 
greenhouse during winter. In Feb- 
ruary they should be shifted into 
larger pots, and this shifting should 
be repeated every week or fortnight 
till the plants have formed their 
flower-buds. Care must be taken 
in shifting the plants not to injure 
the year; but which should be re- 
moved to a stove or hotbed frame 
during winter. They should not, 
however, be plunged, as bottom- 
heat does not appear to suit them. 
They should be grown in peat mixed 
with a little loam, or m very sandy 
the roots, as they are very tender | loam, the pots being well drained ; 
and succulent. The plants are also | and they are propagated by cuttings 
liable to die suddenly if the cellar 
is exposed to much sun-heat, or 
much moisture. The soil should 
be composed of equal parts of ve- 
struck without bottem-heat. Many 
gardeners keep them in a green- 
house all the year, covering them 
with a hand-glass and a mat im very 
getable mould and sandy loam, or| severe weather. 
of loam, peat, and rotten manure} Scuuse/rtia. — Conifere. — See 
from an old hotbed. When the} Decinuous Cypress. 
seeds are sown in spring, it should} Sci'tta. — Asphodélee. — The 
be on a hotbed, and the young: Squill or Wild Hyacinth. Bulbous= 
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