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or budded with success, but are not 

 proper for general practice. 



Crab Stocks are all such as are raised 

 from seeds, &c., of any wild ungrafted 

 trees, particularly if the fruit-tree kind, 

 such as the wild crab-apple of the 

 woods and hedges, wild pears, plums. 



described under the name of that tribe, 

 as Pine Apple, Orchidaceous Plants, 

 Peach, &c. 



Before giving a plan of each general 

 kind, a few observations may be pre- 

 fixed applicable to all. 



Glass. — This should be of the best 



wild cherry, and of such other trees as manufacture, for just in proportion to 



have not been grafted or budded. 

 Free Stocks are such as are raised 



its goodness of quality is the freedom 

 with which the rays of light pass 



from the seed, layers, &c., of any of through, and a plant performs its di- 



the cultivated varieties of fruit-trees, 

 and others. j 



Paradise or Doucin stocks are raised 

 from layers or suckers, from a dwarf 

 variety of apple, the roots of which are 

 produced nearer to the surface than 

 those from crab stocks. 



The French Paradise stock is dis- 



gestive and assimilating processes the 

 nearer to the vigour with which it effects 

 them in a state of nature, just in pro- 

 portion as the light it basks in is similar 

 to that of its native habitant. But this 

 is not the only reason why good glass 

 should be employed in our garden 

 structures ; for whilst panes of common 



tinguished from all others by its very [ crown glass readily break from frost or 

 dwarf growth, clear chestnut-coloured • the slightest twist of the wood-work, 

 shoots, and small fibrous roots, which good sheet glass will remain uninjured 



spread naar the surface. 



The English Paradise may be either 

 referred to as the Doucin of the French 

 or the Dutch Paradise; for in English 

 nurseries, trees propagated on either 



by much greater violence and by the 

 fiercest hailstorms. Some injury from 

 the last, however, will always arise, 

 and this leads me to observe, that no one 

 having green-houses or stoves should 



are said to be on paradise stocks. Of fail to have them insured by the " Hail- 

 these two, the Doucin has the darkest storm Insurance Company." Good 

 shoots. Their effects on the growth of glass is of little value unless kept clean, 

 the trees worked upon them are sinii- ! and for this purpose it should be 

 lar, being intermediate between the cleansed on both sides twice annually, 

 very dwarf habit induced by the French early in February and October, and on 

 Paradise, and the luxuriant growth in- " 

 duced by the crab or free stocks. — 

 Card. Chron. See Scion, Grafting, 

 and Budding. 



S T (E B E . Four species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Young cut- 

 tings. Sandy loam and peat. 



the outside only in June. 



The angle formed by the glass roof 

 of the hnt-house is of very considerable 

 importance, because rays of light are 

 refiectcd in proportion to the obli(iuity 

 with which they fall upon any given 

 surface : those which fall upon it per- 

 STOKESI.A. cyanea. Green-house \ pendicularly from the source of light 



Seeds or divi- pass through with very slight diminu- 

 tion, but those falling upon it in a slant- 

 ing or oblique direction are reduced in 

 number in proportion to the obliquity 

 STOFPINti; is pinching or nipping off | of that direction. To ascertain how a 



herbaceous perennial 

 sion. Common soil. 



STONECROP. Sediim. 



STONE PINE. Pinus Pinea 



the extremity of a branch to prevent its 

 further extension in length. It is fre- 

 quently done either to promote its 

 robustness, or to promote the produc- 

 tion of laterals. 



STOR.W. Styrax. 



STORK\S BILL. Pelargonium. 



STOVES, as they are usually called 

 in England, or hot-houses, as distinct- 

 ive from green-houses, are variously 

 constructed in accordance with the ha- 

 bits of the plants for which they are 



lass roof may be constructed, so as to 

 receive the greatest number of rays of 

 ' light from the sun perpendicularly, or 

 near to perpendicularity, at any given 

 time of the year, it is necessary to know 

 the latitude of the place where the hot- 

 house is erected, and the sun's declina- 

 tion at the period when most light is 

 required. The latter information may 

 be obtained from most almanacks, and 

 if it be subtracted from the latitude, the 

 remainder will be the angle desired. 



intended. Those especially adapted to If London be the place, and May the 

 one tribe of plants will be particularly ; 6th the lime about when the most light 



