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species. In the woody kinds, the youna; : green trees. Ripe cuttings. Loam and 

 shoots are slipped off from the sides of pent. 



the branches, &c., with tlie thuinh and 

 finger, instead of cutting them off' with 



.«;L0E tree. Prunus spinosa. 

 SLUGS are of many species, and the 



a knife, but is more commonly practised smaller are much more injurious to the 

 to the lower ligneous plants, such as gardener than those of a larger size, 

 sage, southernwood, rosemary, rue, and , because they are much less discernible, 

 lavender. The best season of the year ' and their ravages being more gradual, 

 for effecting the work is generally in ; are not at once detected. They are 

 spring and beginning of summer, though I effectually destroyed by either salt or 

 many sorts will grow if planted at al- { lime ; and to secure its contact with 



most any time of the year. 



their bodies, it is best first to water 



Select the young shoots, chiefly of the soil where they harbour with lime 

 but one year's growth, and in many ' water, in the evening, wlien they are 

 sorts the shoots of the year will grow coming out to feed, sprinkling the sur- 

 the most readily, even if ]ilanted the face also with dry lime ; and at the end 



summer they are produced, especially 

 the hard wooded kinds ; but in the more 

 soft wooded plants, the slips will also 

 often readily grow when a year or two 

 old, being careful always to choose the 

 most robust shoots, situated on the out- 



of a week, applying a surface dressing 

 of salt, at the rate of five bushels per 

 acre. If cabbage leaves are spread 

 upon the surface of land infested by 

 slugs, they will resort to their under 

 sides, and thus they may be trapped ; 



ward part of the plants, Trom three to but lime and salt are most efficacious, 

 six, or eight, or ten inches long, slip- Lime-water may be poured over wall- 

 ping them off close to the branches, trees infested with them, and they may 

 Clear off the lower leaves, then plant i be syringed with it as well as with 

 them two parts in the ground, giving ' water in which gas liquor has been 

 occasional shade and water, if in sum- j mixed, about half a pint to a gallon. 

 mer, till properly rooted ; and towards If lime be sprinkled along the top, and 

 autumn transpjant them where they are at the base of the wall, renewing it 



to remam. 



Many shrubby plants growing into 

 ]nrge branches from the root, such as 

 roses, spicas, and raspberries, may be 

 slipped quite to the bottom, into sepa- 

 rate plants, each furnished with roots, 

 and may be planted either in nursery 

 rows, or at once where they are to re- 

 main. 



weekly, the slugs cannot get to the 

 trees. 



S.MALL CARDAMOM. Amomiim 

 cardnmomum. 



S.M.'VLL LUPINE. Lupimis naiius. 



S^LVLL MON'ARDA. Fycnanthc- 

 mum monardella. 



SMALL PALM. Sahal Palmetto. 



SMALL PEPPERMINT. TInjmm 



Herbaceous plants may be slipped i P/pcrp/Za. • 

 into many separate plants, and it is J SMEATHMANNIA tef/g-a^a. Stove 

 effected by slipping off the increased evergreen shrub. Half-ripened cuttings. 



suckers, or offsets of the root ; some 

 sorts, by the offsets from the sides of 

 the heads of the plants ; and some few 

 sorts by slips of their stocks or branches. 

 Slipping should generally be per- 

 formed in the spring, or early part of 

 autumn, which may be effected cither 

 by slipping the outside offsets with 

 roots, as the plants stand in the ground, 

 or, to perform it more effectually, you 

 may take the whole plants up, and slip 

 them into several separate parts, each 



Loam, peat, and sand. 



SMILACINA. Nine species. Hardy 

 herbaceous perennials. Division. Light 

 soil. 



SMITHIA. Three species. Stove 

 trailing annuals. Seeds. Peat, sand, 

 and loam. 



SNAILS. See Slugs. 



These marauders are said to be very 

 fond of bran, and that they are readily 

 trapped if this be put in heaps under 

 dower pots, with one side pro[)pcd up 



slip being furnished also with roots, to admit them. The common garden 

 planting them, if small, in nursery rows , snail. Helix hortensis, is thus noticed 



a year, to gain strength ; or such as are 

 strong, may be pla?itod at once in the 

 borders, &c. — Altercromhi';. 



by Mr. Curtis: — 



"Snails arc said to be hermaphro- 

 dites, and, consptjuently, they are all 



SLOANE.\. Two species. Stoveever-i capable of laying eggs; and there have 

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