1666 SHRUBBERY 



In a continuous border there should be places where 

 shrubs of larger size occupy the lull width so as to 

 bring growth of considerable height into the lawn. The 

 arrangement should be varied so as to avoid all 

 monotony, but in securing this variation a mixture of 

 miscellaneous shrubs of all kinds does not give as good 

 an effect as broader areas of single species or genera 





slightly interspersed at the margin nitl 

 another kind Stnight rows should he 

 laborer ( i t \\ 1 i t I I tl i will 



SICANA 



genus is reduced by Bentham and Hooker to a section 

 of Potentilla, but Britton and Brown keep it separate 

 chiefly on the ground that the pistils are only 4-12 in 

 number instead of very numerous as in Potentilla. Sib- 

 baldias are densely tufted, hardy perennial herbs with 

 woody stems. The Ivs. have prominent stipules and 3 

 leaflets, each of which is characteristically 3-toothed at 

 the apex. The fls. are about ^ in. 



low yetals iiui h smaller than the re- 

 mark il li c ih\ which has 5 broad 

 1 I es altt mating with 5 smaller and 

 n irr wtr lobes or bracts. 



procumbens, Linn., ranges from the 

 arLtic regions to the summits of the 

 White Mts and m the Rockies comes 

 as far south as Utah. It is also found 

 in arctic and alpine Europe and Asia. 

 B B 2 217 -This plant is recom- 

 mended by some persons, but is not 

 known to l^e advertised for sale in 

 America ^_ jj. 



SIBTH6RPIA (John Sibthorp, pro- 

 f 1 tany at Oxford, author 



I r-eca published ISOB-IS). 



I ew A genus of about 

 1 t hardy or tender peren- 



111 il reepmg herbs mostly from the 

 tropical regions, with alternate or 

 tufted roundish, long-petioled Ivs. and 

 yellow orange or red fls. solitary on 

 axillary or fascicled pedicels: calyx 4- 

 5 cleft corolla subrotate, with a very 

 short tube 5-8 cleft; stamens usually 

 equal to the number of corolla-lobes; 

 inthers s-igittite capsule membran- 

 ous compressed loculicidallj dehis- 

 s splitting to the middle 

 n A hariU trailing perennial with very 

 hs oil I uhr less til in ' m across. 



four feet fl\ e feet 

 iiices apart measured 



along I 



somew 1 t I t 



three t t I I 



parallt 1 I 



The 1 1 I I 



all th. 1 1 



appeir t I i 



exteml 1 i I 



and shik ihc ^i u 1 i 

 nothing will grow then 

 the approach of winter si 

 a perpetual mulch T 

 secured tl i In t m ii tl 

 they Hr I 

 The 



of thi 

 \ei\ I 



shrub 1 1 1 



graceful w i\ I i il w ilk cut 



away the encr I i t si tli it tin 



mark of the kii I 1 ^i h tn tii nut 



will help to ret f tli. Irimhrs 



The value of shriiM tnisi t ipj ri elated as it she uld 

 be Those who are interested in the subiect will do 

 well to read what is found in the various books on 

 landscape gardening, Bulletin No. 121 of Cornell Uni- 

 versity Agricultural Experiment Station, thi 

 articles on shrubs and shrubbery to be found in the 

 volumes of "Garden and Forest " and in other hi 

 ral journals. O. C. Simonds. 



SIBBALOIA (Robert Sibbald, Scotch naturalist). 

 Bosileeie. About 5 species of alpine plants, one of which 

 has been suggested as suitable for rock gardens. The 



SICANA (Peruvian name) 

 species of tropical American tall climbing tendril 

 ing Mnes, allied to Cucurbita but differing in h 

 wide spreading or reHe\e(l ciljx lobes and the 





not united. S. odorilera, rvaud., the Curuba of the 

 tropics, has been introduced as the Cassabanana, but 

 long known in the South. Fig. 2327. It is a very quick- 

 growing and interesting ornamental vine: plant gla- 



