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of temperature, but especially if one of STACK HO USIA UnariafoUa. 

 the extremes is much below the degree Green-house evergreen shrub. S.mono- 



of heat tiiDsl favourable to the healthy 

 growth of that plant. The reason of 

 this is very obvious. If a pelargonium, 

 or any other plant, be placed in a highly 

 stimulating heat, and is abundantly sup- 

 plied with root moisture, it immediately 

 increases its surface of leaf to elaborate 

 and digest tlie largo amount of sap for- 



yna, hardy herbaceous perennial. Cut- 

 tings. Sandy loam and peat. 

 - STADMANMA uiistralis. Green- 

 house evergreen tree. Ripe cuttings, 

 with the leaves on. Loam and peat. 



STAFF TREE. Celastrus. 



STALAGMITIS. Seven species. 

 Stove evergreen trees. Cuttings. Turfy 



warded from the roots. If this amount ; loam and peat. They require a stron 

 of sap is subsequently suddenly re- 

 duced, by lowering the temperature 

 and adding water to the soil less freely, 

 the increased surfice of leaf is no longer 

 required, and it is a law pervading all 

 the vegetable creation that the moment 



heat. 



STANDARD. A tree unsupported by 

 a wall or trellis. 



Full Standards are such trees as are 

 trained with tall straight stems six or 

 seven teet high, clear of branches, and 



any of the parts of a plant are unneces- are then suffered to branch out. All 

 sary to it, that moment it begins to de- ' trees designed as full standards should 

 cay. I placed a plant of the Marvel of be trained accordingly in their minor 

 Peru, or Heliotrope, in a high tempera- state, by trimming all lower laterals 

 ture and abundant moisture ; these were gradually as the stems advance in height, 

 then much reduced, and the leaves in j suffering the leader always to remain 

 a few days were completely decayed | entire, especially in all forest trees; or 

 round their edges, and in spots upon if it should happen to fork, taking off 

 their surfices. The extent of leaf was the worst, and leaving the straightest 

 accommodated to the amount of sap to I shoot to run up, to continue the pro- 

 be elaborated. — Princ. of Gard. 



SPREKELI.\ cybister and its varie- ' 

 ties. Stove bulbous perennials. Offsets. 

 Sandv loam. 



SPRENGELIA incarnata. Green- 1 

 house evergreen shrul). Cuttings. San- 

 dy peat. I 



SPRUE, a market name for the small- 

 est sprouts of asparagus. 



SPUR, is a lateral branch cut back, 



longation of the stem; and having thus 

 run them up with clean stems six or 

 seven feet in height, to force out laterals 

 in that part to form a regular spreading 

 head of but moderate lieight, for the 

 greater convenience of gathering the 

 fruit; but of forest tree standards never 

 reduce the tops, but permit the leader to 

 remain ever entire to run up in height, 

 for the beauty and worth of such Con- 

 or shortened to a length of about two sists in their lofty stature. All fruit trees 



inche 



SPURGE LAUREL. Daphne laure- 

 ola. 



SPURLESS VIOLET. Erpdion. 



SQUASH. Cucurbita melopepo. See 

 Gourd. 



STAAVIA. Three species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Young cut- 

 tings. Sandy peat. 



STACHYS. Thirty species. Hardy 



designed for full standards, are raised by 

 grafting, &c., on the freest strong shoot- 

 ing stocks, and are trained with straight 

 clean stems full five to six feet high, 

 either the stock trained up to that sta- 

 ture, and so grafted or budded at the 

 desired height, or the graft or bud is 

 trained up for a stem to the height afore- 

 said, then suffered to send forth branch- 

 es; observing in either method, it is to 



and green-house herbaceous perennials be considered whether you intend the 



and evergreen shrubs, liardy annuals 

 and biennials. The latter increase by 

 seeds. The perennials by division, and 

 the green-house species by cuttings. 

 Common soil suits them all. 



STACHYTARPHETA. Nine species. 

 Stove or green-house annuals, biennials, 

 herbaceous perennials, and evergreen 

 shrubs. The latter increase by cuttings, 

 the former by seeds. Light rich mould 

 suits them all. 



tree shall form a spreading open head 

 or assume a more erect and as[)iring 

 growth: in the former case, if you top 

 the leading shoot of the graft or bud, at 

 six or seven feet from the ground, it will 

 force out lateral shoots at that height, 

 and commence a spreading head open 

 in the middle; sulfering, however, the 

 whole afterwards to take their own 

 growth; and, in the second instance, 

 that by permitting the leading shoot to 



