RUI 



SAG 



the force of the resemblance. — Whate- but it is ridiculous and disgusting to 



good taste, if complicated and elegant 

 Stove forms are constructed of rude materials. 

 Loam, Thus we have seen a tiower-box, in- 

 tended to be Etruscan in its outlines, 



ley. 



R U I Z I A . Two species 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. 

 peat and sand. 



RUN. A plant advancing to seed is formed of split hazel stakes — a comhi- 

 Baid by gardeners to have "run." Also, nation of the rude and the refined, giv- 

 when the dark colouring of a carnation, ing rise to separate trains of ideas to- 

 or other flower, becomes confused or tally unassociable. 



clouded with its lighter ground colour, RITTA. Two species. Hardy and 



half-hardy evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. 

 Light rich soil. See Rue. 



RUYSCIHA clusitrfolia. Stove ever- 

 green shrub. Ripe cuttings. Loam and 

 vegetable mould. 



RYANCEA speciosa. Stove ever- 

 green shrub. Ripe cuttings. Peat and 

 loam. 



RYTIDOPHYLLUM auricula- 

 turn. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. 

 Peat and loam. 



SABAL. Five species. Stove palms. 

 Suckers. Light loamy soil. 



SABBATL\. Five species. Hardy 

 biennials, except S. paniculata, an 

 herbaceous perennial. Seeds. Com- 

 mon soil. 



SACCO LABIUM. Ten species. 

 Stove orchids. Peat, potsherds, and 

 wood . 



SACRED BEAX. Xelumbium. 

 SAFFRON". Crocus saiivus. 

 SAGE. Salvia officinalis. 

 Varieties. — The Common Green ; 

 Wormwood ; Green, with variegated 

 leaves; Red, with variegated leaves; 

 Painted or Parti-coloured : Spanish or 

 Lavender leaved ; and Red. 



Soil and Situation. — A dry mode- 

 ratelv fertile soil is best suited to their 



they say it is " a run flower." Abund- 

 ance of moisture and a rich soil promote 

 the development of leaves, and, con- 

 sequently, check running, or producing 

 seed. A suitably fertile soil also pre- 

 serves the colours of a flower pure and 

 distinct — over-fertility or poverty of soil 

 will equally cause the colours to run. 



RUXiNERS are young shoots issuing 

 from the collar or summit of the root, 

 and creeping along the surface of the 

 soil, but producing a new root and leaves 

 at the extremity, and forming a new in- 

 dividual, by the decay of the connect- 

 ing link. This takes place in a great 

 variety of herbs, but particularly the 

 strawberry, which is a good example. 



They afford very ready and unfailing 

 means of increasing the species or va- 

 riety, all the care required being to see 

 that the plantlet is well rooted before 

 the connecting string is divided. 



RUSCUS. Butcher-s Broom. Five 

 species. Chiefly hardy evergreen shrubs, j 

 Suckers. Common soil. R.androgynus 

 is a green-house evergreen climber. 

 Division. Rich soil. 



RUSSELL\. Four species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Light rich 

 soil. 



RUST. A disease of the berries of growth, \n a sheltered situation. 

 the grape. It appears in the form of a Propagation. — By Cuttings. — These 

 rough, rusty appearance of their skins, may be either of the preceding or same 

 which have, in fact, become thick and In- year's growth ; if of the first, plant in 

 durated. Some think it arises from their April, but if of the latter, not until the 

 being handled, or the hair of the head close of May or middle of June. The 

 touching them ; but the disease is often shoots of the same year are usually em- 

 too general to admit of this topical ployed, as they more readily emit roots, 

 explanation. I believe it to arise from and assume a free growth. The out- 

 an over-heating of the vinery, however ward and most robust shoots should be 



unintentional, whilst the grapes were chosen, and cut from five 



young, and thus tending to force them 



to a premature rapidity of growth. Any 



excessive pressure upon the cuticle, 



whether from within or from without, 



causes its thickening. 



RUSTIC STRUCTURES are pleas 



seven 

 inches in length. All but the top 

 leaves being removed, insert by the 

 dibble almost down to these, in rows 

 six inches apart each way, in a shady 

 border, and during moist weather, 

 otherwise water must be given imme- 



ing in recluse portions of the pleasure diately, and repeated occasionally, until 

 ground, if this style be confined to the they have taken root. When the plants 

 formation of either a seat, or a cottage ; thus raised have an appearance of spind- 



