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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Stove—continued. 
Ornamental Foliage Plants. 
Acalypha Cyperus Panax 
Alocasia Dichorisandra Pandanus 
Ananassa Dieffenbachia Paniewin 
Andropogon Dracena Pavetta 
Anthurium EBranthemum Peperomia 
Aphelandra Eriocnema Phrynium 
Aralia Erythrina Phyllanthus 
Asparagus Ficus Phyllotenium 
Begonia Fittonia Rhopala 
Bertolonia Heliconia Roupala 
Brexia Isolepis Sanchezia 
Brownea Jacaranda Sonerilla 
Caladium Leea Spherogyne 
Campylobotrys Maranta Strobilanthes 
(Hoffmannia) Mimosa Tillandsia _ 
Cossignia Musa Tradescantia 
Croton Nepenthes Zebrina 
Curculigo Nidularium Zingiber 
Cyanophyllum Oplismenus 
Climbers. Wall and Pillar Plants. 
Allamanda Glorvwsa Paullinia 
Aristolochia Hloya Pellionia 
Bignonia Tpomea Pothos 
Bougainvillea Jasminum Schubertia 
Cissus Manettia Solanum 
Clerodendron Marcgravia Stephanotis 
Combretum Oxera Tecoma | 
Dipladenia Passijlora Thunbergia 
Ficus 
STRAIN. A term used by seedsmen for some particular 
or celebrated variety that has been raised in a special 
manner. 
STRANVZESIA. This genus now embraces four 
species, natives of China, Thibet, and the Himalayan 
region. 
STRATIFICATION. By this method seeds which 
quickly lose their germinative properties may be preserved. 
The direct action of air has a very detri- 
mental effect on seeds, and those requiring 
protection are mostly stratified as soon as 
they are collected. The simplest way to do 
this is to take a receptacle of any sort 
possessing some outlets to prevent any stag- 
nation, and of a size suitable to the quantity 
of seeds to be preserved. On the bottom of 
it should be laid a thin bed of breeze (small 
pieces of unburnt coke), and this should be 
covered with one of sand, on which the seeds 
should be deposited as closely as possible. 
Another layer of sand shonld now be added, 
then more seeds, and so on until the pan is 
filled, when the whole must be covered with 
more breeze to keep away worms. It is 
advisable to stand the receptacle in the coolest 
place. As cellars are too warm in winter, a 
good plan would be to bury it underground 
at a sufficient depth to avoid frost. The 
soil placed on the top must be arranged in 
such a way as to form a kind of cone to keep 
off the water; and this especially applies to 
tree and vegetable seeds. Stratification is 
also useful for tropical and sub-tropical seeds, 
which would otherwise lose their germinative 
properties before their arrival here. Cocoa- 
and Coffee-tree seeds must be stratified as 
soon as collected. 
STRAVADIUM INSIGNE. A syno- 
nym of Barringtonia samoensis (which 
see). 
STRAWBERRY. The method of 
growing Strawberries ih barrels has been 
recommended as a means of obtaining a 
large quantity of fine fruit from a small 
area. For those who have a very limited 
garden the plan possesses some advantages ; 
but for the ordinary cultivator the barrel has 
yet to be proved an advantage or superior 
to the usual practices. The size of barrel 
most frequently used is that known as a 
36-gallon. The top is removed, and the 
bottom perforated with drainage-holes. The 
Strawberry—continued. 
sides of the barrels are also perforated with holes about 
3in. in diameter, there being 100 holes or so in a 
barrel of the size named. After putting drainage in the 
barrel, it is filled with good fibrous loam, and a little 
well-decayed manure added, having a 3in. drain pipe, 
or a coil of fine wire-netting filled with moss down the 
centre of the barrel from top to bottom, which acts for 
drainage and keeps the soil sweet by admitting air down 
the centre. 
_ Strong Strawberry-ranners are planted early in August 
in the holes round the barrel,-and also on the top, and 
the young plants carefully watered and syringed to 
encourage growth. The following season the plants fruit, 
and, if the barrel is raised a foot or so from the ground, 
the frnit hanging down is free from grit, and perfectly 
clean. The greatest objection to this mode of growing 
Strawberries is the weight of the barrel, and the difficulty 
of moving it from one place to another or turning it 
round so that the sun may shine on all sides. A 
revolying apparatus was made for placing the barrels 
on, but the cost was too great for it to be used generally. 
Forcine In Pors. In addition to the information given 
under this head in Vol. III., we add a few remarks on the 
importance of the proper development and cleanliness of 
the foliage. Many are under the impression that plants 
will frnit as well when deprived of their foliage as when 
this is retained. Experiments, however, have proved that 
thongh the blossoms will set they absolutely refuse to 
develop fruit of a useful size, none attaining the size of 
an ordinary marble or a Hazel-nut. This is due to the 
want of nourishment supplied throngh the leaves, and the 
leaves being absent no ‘plant-food supplied to the roots 
can be assimilated; in fact, manures supplied under such 
conditions do infinitely more harm than good. 
In Fig. 703, showing a plant with bold, handsome foliage 
and blossoms appearing above, we have the proper growth 
and balance between the roots and tops, in which both 
Fic. 703. FORCED STRAWBERRY PLANT IN FLOWER, 
