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with the pruning-knife or shears, so as : light loam on a dry subsoil. Leaf-mould 

 to keep the hedge in shape. When it ! and liquid manure the best additions 



gets naked at the bottom it must be 

 again cut down." — Gard. Chron. 



SWEET CALABASH. Fassiftora 

 maliformis. 



SWEET CICELY. See Chervil. 



SWEETIA. Three species. Stove 

 evergreen twiners. Cuttings or seeds. 

 Loam and sand. 



SWEET MAR.TORAM. Origanum 

 majorana. 



SWEET MAUDLIN. Achillea age- 

 ratum. 



SWEET PEA. Lathyrus odoratus. 



SWEET POTATOE. Batata. 



SWEET SOP. Anona squamosa. 



SWEET SULTAN. Centaurea mos- 

 chata. 



SWEET WILLIAM. Dianthus har- 

 batus. 



Varieties. — Narrow-leaved kinds : 

 Deep Red; Pale Red; Pale Red and 

 Flesh-coloured; Purplish, white-eyed; 

 Snow White; White and Flesh-colour- 

 ed ; White and Purple ; White Spotted ; 

 Red flowers and white borders, called 

 Painted Lady Sweet-William, and many 

 other intermediate shades of colours 



Propagation. — They are propagated 

 by seed, layers, and slips. 



By Seed. — March and April is the 

 season for sowing ; sow it in a bed or 

 border of light earth broadcast, and 

 rake it in. In a fortnight the plants 

 will come up. In June or July trans- 

 plant into nursery beds of common 

 earth, in rows six or eight inches dis- 

 tant, to remain until autumn or spring 

 following, then to be taken up and 

 planted in the places where they are to 

 flower. 



By Layers. — June and July is the 

 proper season, and the same method is 

 to be observed in every respect as for 

 the Carnation. This is the only me- 

 thod of propagation to continue the 

 same double-flowered varieties. Being 

 layered, give frequent waterings in dry 

 weather, and they will be well rooted 

 in six or seven weeks, then to be sepa- 

 rated from the old plant, and removed 

 to a bed of light soil; and in October 

 some of them should be potted to move 

 to occasional shelter from frost, for 

 although the doubles are almost as 



and variegations, and which frequently ' hardy as the single, yet being more 

 vary in the flowers of the same aggre- i choice, it is necessary always to have 

 gate; there are also single and double j some that may have protection in severe 

 flowers of each variety. Among the winters, the same as for choice Carna- 

 doubles of this class of narrow leaves, tions. 



is that sort called the Mule, having a ' By Slips. — July is the best month for 

 bright red double flower in smallish ag- ' slipping ; observing, if it is to be per- 

 gregates, said to have been accidentally formed upon the year-old plants, they 

 produced from the seed of a Carnation must be slipped quite down to the 



impregnated by the Sweet-William. 

 Broad-leaved kinds: — Tall deep red; 



roots, so as to have fibres to each slip ; 

 plant them at once where they are to 



Tall flesh-coloured; Pure White; White ' flower, but these never make such good 

 dotted; Striped leaves and red flowers; | plants as seedlings and layers, nor do 

 Large double rose-coloured; Sweet j they generally flower so strongly. 



scented; Large double deep purplish 

 burster; Double variegated. All the 

 varieties, about forty in number, are 

 hardy herbaceous evergreen perennials, 

 rising the first year with a large bushy 

 tuft of leafy shoots, continuing green 



Saving Seed. — " The flowers which 

 have the most beautiful colours, should, 

 when in full bloom, be marked from 

 which to have seed; if any ordinary 

 sorts grow near them, let them be re- 

 moved to prevent hybridizing. Let the 



the year round, and the second year branches of seed be gathered in dry 

 shooting up flower-stems, producing weather, and after lying a few days in 

 flowers in June and July, succeeded by the sun be beaten out and stored till 

 abundance of seed in autumn. The '■ spring." — Abercrombie. 

 plants, although usually of several [ SWIETENIA. Two species. Stove 

 years' duration, yet, after the first year | evergreen trees. Ripe cuttings with 

 of flowering, the shoots generally be- the leaves on. Loam and sand, 

 come long, straggling, and of dwindling j SYMPHIANDRA pendida. Hardy 

 growth, so that a supply should be raised biennial. Seeds. Common soil, 

 every year from seed or layers. SYMPIIORICARPUS. St. Peter's 



Soil. — The best is a moderately rich : Wort. Three species. Hardy decidu- 



