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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Strawberry—continued, 
results. Several sprayings should take place at intervals 
of about ten days. 
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*%: 150 
By Permission of the Board of Agriculture. 
Fic. 706. STRAWBERRY MILDEW (Spheerotheca_humuli), showing 
A, Conidiophores ; B, Perithecium; and C, Section of Ascus, 
showing the spores. 
To the varieties on pp. 512-3, Vol. III., the following 
may be added: 
Acquisition. Fruit very large, pale red ; flesh soft and of fair 
flavour. An immense bearer. 
Auguste Boisselot. Fruit dark red; flesh red, melting, and of 
delicious flavour. Hardy and prolitic. 
Countess. Fruit large, dark crimson, with deep red melting 
flesh, of exquisite flavour. A splendid variety on warm soils, and 
very prolific. 
Edouard Lefort. Fruit medium to large, bright red; flesh red, 
melting, with a delicious aromatic flavour. A French variety 
of great merit. Hardy, and a moderate bearer. 
Empress of India. Fruit medium to large, bright scarlet ; 
flesh red and very fine flavour. Valuable for forcing or outdoor 
culture. 
Gunton Park. Fruit large, deep crimson-scarlet; flesh firm, 
rich, and briskly flavoured. A new and promising variety. 
Leader. Fruit very large, deep scarlet, with flesh of the same 
colour, of fairly good flavour, A great bearer, hardy and 
compact. 
Mentmore. Fruit large, very dark red. A new variety raised by 
Messrs. Laxton, of fine flavour, and promises to be a good mid- 
season variety. 
Strawberry—continued. 
Monarch. Fruit very large, deep crimson; flesh white, firm, an¢ 
of very good quality. A new variety ; hardy and prolific. 
Royal Sovereign. Fruit large, bright scarlet ; flesh pale, firm, 
and briskly flavoured, A variety of great merit. A wonderful 
cropper, hardy, and also very early. Fine for either forcing 
or outside culture. 
Veitch’s Perfection. Fruit very large, dark crimson; flesh 
very rich and of the finest flavour. A new late variety raised 
from across between British Queen and Waterloo, and promises 
to be a valuable introduction. 
Waterloo. Fruit very large, dark claret-colour ; flesh deep 
crimson, juicy, and of agreeable flavour. Valuable for its late- 
ness, and as a rule produces the heaviest crop on two-year-old 
plants. 
STRAWBERRY LEAF - SPOT  (Spherella 
fragariz). The common name gives a clue to the chief 
characteristic of the disease—the spots on the foliage. 
These occur on the upper surface, and increase in size 
and colour as the different stages are reached; usually 
they coalesce. They are at first dark purplish; then the 
central portion lightens until it is nearly white, and the 
blotches by this time are of large size, and practically the 
whole leaf-surface is discoloured. When this is the case, 
the foliage is shed, and in very bad cases the plants die. 
In America the somewhat heroie treatment of mowing 
the plantation after the crop has been gathered, and 
then firing the tops by the aid of straw, is adopted; but 
the remedy when suggested here was regarded as worse 
than the disease. There seems, however, to be little 
doubt as to its efficacy, and it is well worthy of a trial, 
followed the next season by spraying with Bordeaux 
Mixture. In America the disease is called the Strawberry 
Leaf-Blight, and those who wonld like to go farther 
into its life-history shonld read Prof. Scribner’s article in 
the Report of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
STRELITZIA. To the species and varieties described 
on p. 514, Vol. III., the following shonld be added : 
S. angustifolia (narrow-leaved). A form of S. parvifolia. 
S. farinosa is a variety of S. Regine. 
S. Nivenii (Niven’s). 7. lanceolate, very narrow. 
hybrid. 1888. 
S. pumila (dwarf). A form of S. Regine. 
S. Regine flava (yellow). A variety with citron-yellow sepals. 
1887. It is also called citrina. 
STREPTOCALY®X (from streptos, twisted, and calyx; 
in allusion to the twisted sepals). ORD. Bromeliacer. A 
small genus (eight species) of stove, herbaceous plants, 
differing from Achmea only in the very contorted sepals 
and more protruded, scaleless sepals—according to J. G. 
Baker, scarcely worth separating generically. For culture 
of the two species known to cultivation, see Aachmea. 
S. Fuerstenbeygii. The correct name of Achmea,Fuersten- 
bergii. SyN. Tillandsia Fuerstenbergii. 
S. Vallerandi Canpene Vallerand’s). jl. violet, in a dense, 
erect, oblong-cylindrical panicle Ift. to lft. Jong 5 branch- 
bracts as long as the branches, bright red, the lower ones 
3in. to 4in. long. J. about forty in a dense rosette, ovate and 
Zin. to 4in. broad at base, the blade 3ft. to 4ft. long and 
lsin. broad, the marginal prickles small and close. Amazon 
Valley, 1876. (B. H. 1883, p. 13, t. 1-2.) Syn. Lamprococcus 
Vallerandi (R. H. 1887, p. 129). 
STREPTOCARPUS. All the plants comprised in 
this genus will thrive under greenhouse treatment. To 
those described on p. 516, Vol. III., the following shonld 
be added: 
S. biflorus (two-flowered). A synonym of S. Gardenii. 
S. Galpini (E. E. Galpin’s).* fl. rich mauve, with’a conspicuous 
white eye, campanulate, nearly 14in. across; corolla lobes five, 
spreading-recurved. October. J. solitary, radical, sessile, ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, entire, sub-cordate at base, silky-villous above, 
tumid between the nerves, flesh-coloured and red-nerved 
beneath. Transvaal, 1890. (B. M. 7230.) 
S. luteus (yellow).* The correct name of the plant figured in 
B. M. 6636, and described on p. 516, Vol. IIL, as S. parviflora. 
S. multifiora (many-flowered). A garden variety of S. Rexii. 
s. pnanoean (small-flowered).* i. pale blue or purplish; 
calyx somewhat five-parted; corolla tube about jin. long; 
edicels twin, distant; peduncles three- to ten-flowered. 
if dense, ovate or oblong, narrowed at base, sub-sessile, 7in. 
South Africa. 
A garden 
long, crenate, softly villous, woolly beneath. 
(B. M. 7036.) 
S. Rexii multifiora (many-flowered). 
ae larger and brighter-coloured flowers than in the type. 
1895. 
A garden seedling, 
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