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green shrub. Young cuttings 

 peat, and sand. 



STEPHANOTIS fiorihunda. Stove 

 climber. Cuttings. Light rich loam. 



STEPTOCARPUS rexii. Mr. M'ln- 

 tyrc, of Hillsborough, gives the follow 



Loam, Hardy bulbous perennials. Offsets. Rich 

 loam. 



STEVENLl. Two species. Hardy 

 innual and biennial. Seeds. Common 



STEVIA. Thirty-one species. Hardy, 

 directions for the culture of this half-hardy, or green-house herbaceous 



perennials. Cuttings, divisions and 

 seeds. Peat and loam. 



STEWARTIA virsrinica. Hardv de- 



green-house evergreen : — 



The seed should be sown in the 



month of April, in pans, in a mixture of ; 



peat and loam ; then place the pans in ciduous tree. Layers or ripe cuttings. 



a hot-bed, frame or_pit,_until the plants Peat and loam. 



STIFTL\ insi^nis. Green-house de- 

 Cuttings. Loam and 



are fit for potting off. The seed should 



be sown very thin; if not, the greater ciduous shrub. 



portion of the plants will rot off for want peat. 



of air and room to their stalks, as they S TIGMAPHYLLON. Four species. 



grow with their foliage prostrate. As Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings. 



soon as the plants are large enough for Peat and sandy loam. 



potting off, fill a quantity of pots with a 



mixture of leaf-mould, loam, and sand ; 

 place a plant in each pot, and give a 

 little water. 



"Afterwards remove them into the 

 frame or pit; when they have got es- 

 tablished in their pots, they may be 

 removed to a cold frame or green- 

 house. 



" In June, they may be placed in the 

 open air, and regularly watered during 

 the summer. 



" Towards the end of October, re- 

 move them to a frame, to protect them 

 from frost. In May or June Ibllowing 

 they may be planted out where recjuired. 

 As soon as frost is apprehendecl, take 

 up the plants, with a ball of earth at- 

 tached to the roots, repot them and 

 place them in a green-house or frame, 

 till again required.'' — Gard. Chron. 



S T E R C U L I A. Eighteen species. 

 Stove evergreen trees and shrubs. Ripe 

 cuttings, with the leaves left on. Light 

 turfy or peaty loam. 



STER1GM.\. Two species. Hardy 

 biennials. Seeds. Sandy loam. 



STERILE is a term applied to unpro- 

 ductive land and flowers. For some 

 observations on the first, see Barren. 

 Sterile (lowers are the male flowers on 

 monocicious and dioecious plants. They 

 occur on the cucumber, melon, gourd, 

 asparagus, &c. They must not be de 



STILAGO. Two species. Stove 

 evergreen trees. Cuttings. SandyJoam 

 and peat. 



STITCHWORT. Stellaria. 



SiTQ'a ]^i\. pinnata. Green-house 

 evergreen shrub. Young cuttings. 

 Light rich soil. 



STOCK. Mathiola. This genus was, 

 until lately, united with the wall-flower, 

 under the generic name Cheiranthus. 

 Some of the following are species, but 

 others only very distinct varieties, 



M. acaulis. (Stemless Stock.) Hardy 

 annual. Red. Flowers in June. 



M. alpina. (Alpine Stock.) Hardy 

 evergreen. Yellow. May. 



M. annua. (Ten-week Stock.) Hardy 

 annual. Various colours. August. 

 Many varieties. 



M. coronopifolia. Hardy biennial. 

 Purple. June. 



M.fenestralis. Hardy biennial. Pur- 

 ple. July. 



M. glabrata. Half-hardy evergreen. 

 White. August. 



M. grcEca. Hardy annual. White. 

 August. 



M. helvetica. (Swiss Stock.) Hardy 

 evergreen. Yellow. June. 



M. incana. (Brompton and Twick- 

 enham Stock.) Hardy evergreen shrub. 

 Crimson. August. Many varieties. 



M. livida. Hardy annual. Purple. 



stroyed, for without the pollen produced July, 

 by their stamens, the fertile or female M. longipetala. Hardy annual. Red. 

 blossoms will not produce fruit. If .Tune 

 plants are grown in too high a tempera- 

 ture, there is reason to believe they 

 produce an excess of these sterile or 

 male blossoms. 



S T E R N B E R G I A. Four species. 



M.maritima. (Virginia Stock.) Hardy 

 annual. Red and white. June. 



M. mutabilis. (Changeable Stock.) 

 Green-house evergreen. Yellow and 

 purple. May. 



