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at all what the plant is capable of kind of grain, like that of most others, 

 yielding. Instead of throwing away the varies considerably, according to the 

 "stump" of the pine-apple, it should state of the soil, climate and the cnl- 

 be placed in a damp pit, and exposed tivation that is employed; but the 

 to a bottom heat of 90", or thereabouts, average quantity of seed is about filty 

 when every one of the latent eyes will bushels per acre. This will produce 

 spring forth, and a crop of young plants fifty gallons of oil, and of oil-cake 1,500 

 be the result." pounds. ']"lie stalks, when burnt for 



Taking up or transplanting stickers alkali, give ten hundred weight of po- 

 may be performed almost at any time, tash. 



in open weather, from October to: SUNFLOWER. Actinotus Helianthi. 

 March, being careful to dig them up j SUN ROSK. Heliantheinam. 

 from the mother plant with as much SURFACE GRUBS, or caterpillars, 

 root as possible, and cutting off any j are the larvic of several species of 

 thick knobbed part of the old root that Noctua, or Night Moths. Gardeners 

 may adhere to the bottom, leaving only thus name them because they attack the 

 the fibres arising from the young wood, roots of the turnip, mangold wurtzcl, 

 Though it is probable some will appear &c., just at the surface of the soil, 

 with hardly any fibres, they will be dis- 1 SUTHERLANDIA/rw/cscc/iS. Half- 



posed to produce them after removal. 



SUFFOCATION is a term employed 

 by Keith and others to describe any 

 stopping of the transpiratory organs of 

 plants, whether it arises from extrava- 

 sated sap, mosses, fungi, or even from 

 a deficient supply oPsap. 



SUGAR RAKERS' REFUSE. See 

 Animal Matters. 



SUMACH. Rhus. 



SUNFLOWER. Helianthus. 



H. anniius. Annual Sunflower. 



hardy evergreen shrub. Seeds or young 

 cuttings. Peat and loam. 



SUWARROW NUT. Caryocar. 



SWAINSONIA. Three species. 

 Green-house evergreen shrubs. Young 

 cuttings or seeds. Sandy loam and peat. 



SWALLOW WORT. Asclepias. 



SWAMP LOCUST TREE. Gledit- 

 schia monosperma. 



SWAMP POST. Qtiercus lyrata. 



SWARTZIA. Three species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings with the 



Soil and Situation. — A light rich soil, ! leaves on. Sandy loam and peat, 

 and as unshadowed by trees as possible, { SWEDISH BEAM TREE. Py7-us 

 suits it best. It is now much cultivated intermedia. 



for its oil, and as a food for cattle and , SWEDISH TURNIP. Brassica cam- 

 poultry. The following directions for pestris ; va.r. rittabaga. 

 its culture on a large scale, are applica- : SWEEPING. See Broom. It is 

 ble on a reduced extent for the gar- j best done in calm weather, and early, 

 den : — [ whilst the dew is strong enough to al- 



The earlier the seed can be got into lay the dust and keep the light refuse 

 the ground the better, say the beginning from blowing about, 

 of April, as the crop will be ready to | SWEET BAY. Lauriis nobilis. 

 harvest the latter part of August, which SWEET BRIAR. Rosa rubiginosa. 

 will be of the greatest importance to It is of the easiest propagation in any 

 growers. The necessary (]uantity of common garden soil. Cuttings, suck- 

 seed required for an acre depends upon ers, ai\d seed may be inditferently em- 

 the conditions of the soil, and varies ployed. 



from four pounds to five pounds ; but, ; " To form a hedge of it sow the heps 

 of course, it is advisable to sow a little in the autumn as soon as ripe, or which 

 more than is actually wanted, to pro- | is better, in the month of J\Iarch, hav- 

 vide against accidents. The seed should ing kept them in the meanwhile mixed 

 be drilled into the ground, and the dis- with sand. But it is far more conveni- 

 tance from row to row eighteen inches; ' ent to buy sweet briar ' layers,' (young 

 the plants to be thinned out to thirty plants.) from the nurseryman, and to 

 inches from plant to ])lant, and the plant them a foot apart early in the 

 number of plants at this distance would month of November. Let them grow 

 be about 14,500 per acre ; at eighteen as they like for the first year, and cut 

 inches from plant to plant, 25,000 per them down to the ground the second; 

 acre ; and at twelve inches from plant thoy will then spring up and require no 

 to plant, 3'2,000. The produce of this more care than occasional trimming 

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