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SEA 



and perfect their seed in the course of dung must be added ; but decayed 



the two following months. 



j leaves are preferable, and sea- weed 



SCUTELLARIA. Twenty-seven still more so. Common salt is a very 

 species. Hardy herbaceous perennials, beneficial application, either applied 



»S. humilis is a half-hardy. S. haienen- 

 sis, a stove herbaceous perennial. .Seeds 

 and division. Common soil. The shrub- 

 by species increase by young cuttings. 



SCYPHANTHUS grandiflorus and 

 elegans. Hardy twining annuals. Seeds. 

 Sandy loam. 



SCYTHE. This mowing implement 

 being confined, in the garden, to cut- 

 ting the fine short grass of lawns, re- 



dry, in the spring, in the proportion of 

 twenty or thirty bushels per acre, or by 

 occcasional waterings, with a solution, 

 containing four ounces in the gallon, 

 round every stool during the spring. 

 The situation cannot be too open and 

 free from trees. 



Propagation is both from seed and 

 slips of the root. The first is the best 

 mode ; for, although from slips it may 



quires to be much sharper than that be obtained with greater certainty, yet 

 used in cutting the coarser grasses, the plants arising from seed are the 

 which stand up more firmly to the strongest and longest lived. Sow from 

 scythe. It is also necessary that the October to the commencement of April; 

 mowers should not score the grass, that but the best time for inserting it is 

 is, should not leave the mark of each during January or February. Leave 

 stroke of the scythe, which has a very the plants where raised ; and, to guard 

 unsightly appearance; to prevent which, against failure, insert the seed in patch- 

 have the scythe laid out ratlier wider, es of six or twelve seeds, each six 

 an inch or two beyond heel and toe, inches apart, and the patches two feet 

 especially for very short grass; and in ' asunder. If intended for transplanting, 

 mowing, keep the point rather out, and the seed may be sown in drills twelve 

 do not draw that part too fast toward, inches asunder ; in either case it must 

 gathering the grass neatly to the left in ] not be buried more than two inches be- 

 a range; and having mowed to the end low the surface ; and it is a good prac- 

 of the swaith, mow it lightly back again, tice, previous to inserting it, to bruise 

 to trim off all scores, and other irregu- ; the outer coat of the seed, without in- 



larities, unavoidably left the first time. 

 — Abercrombie. 



SEA-BUCKTHORN Ilippophce. 



SEAFORTHIA elegans. Stove palm. 

 Seed. Turfy loam and sand. 



SEA-HEATH. Frankenia. 



SEA-HOLLY. Eryngium. 



SEA-KALE.' Crambe Maritima. 



Soil and Situation, — A light mode- 

 rately rich soil, on a dry substratum, 

 suits it best, though in any dry soil it 

 will succeed. A bed may be composed 

 for it of one-half drift sand, one-third 

 rich loam, and one-third small gravel. 



jurmg its vegetating power, as by this 

 treatment the germination is accele- 

 rated. The plants will in general 

 make their appearance in four or five 

 months, never sooner than six weeks ; 

 but, on the other hand, the seed will 

 sometimes remain twelve mouths be- 

 fore it vegetates. 



The best time for increasing it by 

 slips is in March. Rooted suckers may 

 be detached from established plants ; or 

 their roots, which have attained the 

 thickness of the third finger, be cut into 

 lengths, each having at least two eyes. 



road stuff" or coal-ashes; if the loam is j The cuttings must be inserted in an up- 



poor, a little well-rotted dung or de- 

 cayed leaves being added. The soil 

 must be deep, so that the roots can 

 penetrate without being immersed in 

 water, which invariably causes their 

 decay. The depth should not be less 



right position, two or three inches be- 

 neath the surface. It is best to plant 

 two together, to obviate the danger of 

 failure, at two feet apart, to remain. 

 Some persons, from a desire to save a 

 year, recommend yearling plants to be 



than two feet and a half; and if not so obtained and inserted in February or 

 naturally, worked to it by trenching. March ; but as the shoots ought not to 

 If at all tenacious, this opportunity may be cut for use the first season after 

 be taken to mix with itdrift or sea-sand, ' planting, the object is not attained, for 

 so as to reduce it to a friable texture, seedlings may be cut from the second 

 If wet it must be drained, so that water year. 



never shall stand within three feet of The beds should be laid out three 

 the surface. If poor, well putrefied j feet wide, and a two feet alley between 



