THE NURSERY LIST. 



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they start. Ordinarily, the runners will take root without 

 artificial aid ; but in hard soils, or with new or scarce varie- 

 ties, the joints are sometimes held down with a pebble or bit 

 of earth. New varieties are often propagated throughout the 

 season from plants which are highly fertilized, and which are 

 not allowed to fruit. Very strong plants are obtained by 

 growing them in pots. A 3-inch pot is sunk below the run- 

 ner, and the joint is held upon it by a stone or clod. The 

 runner is then pinched off, to prevent further growth, and to 

 throw all its energy into the one plant. The pot should be 

 filled with soft, rich earth. Shouldered pots are best, be- 

 cause they can be raised more easily than others, by catch- 

 ing the spade or trowel under the shoulder. The plants will 

 fill the pots in three or four weeks, if the weather is favor- 

 able. Old tin fruit cans, which have been heated to remove 

 the bottoms, can also be used. 



Cuttings of the tips of runners are sometimes made and 

 handled in a frame, as an additional means of rapidly in- 

 creasing new kinds. These cuttings are really the cast-away 

 tips left from the heading-in or checking of the runners. 



Strawberry Geranium. See Saxifraga. 

 Strawberry Tree. See Arbutus. 



Strelitzia (Bird of Paradise Flower, Bird's-tongue Flower). 



Scitaminece. 



Increased by seeds, which should be sown in light soil, and 

 the pots plunged in moist bottom heat. Also increased by 

 suckers and by division of the old plants. 



Streptocarpus (Cape Primrose). Gesneracece. 

 Readily propagated by seeds or by divisions. 



Strobilanthes, including Goldfussia (Cone Head). Acanthacece 



Seeds. Cuttings, in any light soil under glass, in heat. 

 Struthiola. Thymelaacece. 



Seeds, when obtainable. Cuttings in sand under a frame. 

 Stuartia. Ternstrcemiacece. 



May be increased by seeds and layers, or by means of rip- 

 ened cuttings, inserted in sand under a hand-glass. Seeds 

 are oftenest used, where obtainable. 



Stylidium, Candollea. Stylidiea. 



Grown from seeds, or in a few cases, from divisions of the 

 roots. The shrubby kinds may be increased by cuttings. 



