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Succulents. Plants possessing thick, fleshy 



leaves, such as Cacti, Sedums, Sempervi- 



vums, Crassulas, etc. 

 Suffruticose. Half-shrubby ; having a 



somewhat shrubby habit. 

 Sulcate. Furrowed, channeled. 

 Superior. Growing above anything. An 



ovary is superior when it grows above 



the origin of the calyx. 

 Surculi. Young shoots. 



TEM 



Suture. The line of junction of two differ- 

 ent parts. 



Sylvestris, Sylvaticus, Sylvan. Growing in 

 woods. 



Syn. In Greek compounds means union, 

 adhesion, or growing together. 



Syngenesious. Having the anthers united 

 at their edges, so as to form a tube; be- 

 longing to the nineteenth class in the 

 Linnsean system. 



T. 



riTJ able, Stage, and Bench. These are the 

 different terms used for the struc- 

 ture whereon plants are set in the 

 green-house. The bench or table more 

 particularly refers to one flat platform, 

 which, if in the front of the green-house, is 

 from three to four feet wide ; if in the 

 middle or center of the house, seven 

 or eight feet wide, and from two to 

 three feet in height, according to the 

 style of the house. These widths and 

 heights are important as being the 

 most convenient for use, as well as to 

 show the plants to the best advantage. 

 The Stage is a series of platforms, placed 

 usually in the center of the green-house, 

 being of various widths, from one to 

 three feet. For instance, if the base 

 width of the platform be nine feet, three 

 stagings of three feet each would be re- 

 quired (each elevated a foot above the 

 other) to make the width. This style of 

 green-house benching, however, is less 

 to be recommended than one platform of 

 the same height, as the latter is not only 

 more convenient to work with, but the 

 plants show on it to better advantage 

 than if elevated too high. 



The green-house benches are usually 

 made of inch boards, but in our own 

 practice we have for the past three years 

 had all the " sheeting " for our benches 

 made of rough roofing slate, over which 

 is laid half an inch of cement. These ma- 

 terials cost only about 25 per cent, more 

 than the board benches, and will be an im- 

 mense saving, as the wooden benches' 

 rot out from the heat and moisture in 

 four or five years. The skeleton or 

 frame-work of the benches we make of Yel- 

 low Pine. If the frame-work were made of 

 iron, such benches would be indestructi- 

 ble; but even with the pine wood frame- 

 work they will stand for twenty years, as 

 the cement covering laid over the slates 

 prevents the water getting to the wood 

 work. Care, however, must be taken to 

 leave spaces every ten feet or so, where 

 the water can escape through the bench. 

 For the material covering the bench on 

 which to set the plants, see Drainage. 



Tegmen. The inner skin which covers the 

 seed; the glumes of grasses. 



Tegmentum. The outer scales of a leaf bud. 



Temperature. A temperature suited to the 

 nature of the plant is one of the most im- 



