SEE 



Gather the fruit in autumn, and 

 treat it like that of the medlar. 



SESBA'NIA. (From sesban, the Arabic 

 name of S. JEgyptlca. Nat. ord., Legu- 

 minous Plants [Fabacene], Linn., 17- 

 Diadelphia -Decandria. Alliance near 

 Clianthus.) 



All yellow-flowered. Annuals require to be 

 sown in a hotbed, in April, and flowered either 

 in the plant -stove or a warm greenhouse; 

 shrubs, by cuttings of the half-ripened, stubby 

 shoots, in sand, under a bell-glass, in bottom- 

 heat ; fibry loam and sundy peat. Winter 

 temp., 60; summer, 60 to Q0, with abun- 

 dance of moisture. 



STOVE EVEEGEEENS. 



S, JSggpti'aca (Egyptian). 4. July. Egypt. 

 IfJSO. 



occidenta'lis (western). 4. July. W. Indies. 



1816. 



STOVE ANNUALS. 

 S. aculea't a (prickly). 4. July. E. Indies. 1690. 



qffi'nis (kindred). 3. July. E. Indies. 1800. 



gra'cilis (slender). 3. July. 1820. 



pi'cta (painted). 6. July. W. Indies. 



1823. Biennial. 



puncta'ta (red-spotted). 3. July. Guinea. 



1825. 



seri'cea (silky). 3. July. E.Indies. 1818. 



SETS are the tubers, or portions of 

 tubers, employed for propagating pota- 

 toes and other tuberous-rooted plants. 

 It may be accepted as a rule universally 

 applicable to them, that a moderately- 

 sized whole tuber is always to be pre- 

 ferred to a cutting of a tuber. 



SETTING is fertilizing the female 

 blossoms with pollen from the male 

 blossoms. A plant is said to be a shy 

 setter when this fertilizing is apt to fail. 



SEVERI'NIA. A doubtful name for 

 the Box-leaved Orange. Ci'trus buxi- 

 fo'lia. 



SEYME'EJA. (Named after If. Seij- 

 mer, an English naturalist. Nat. ord., 

 Figworts [Scrophulariacese]. Linn., 14- 

 Didynamia 2-Angiospermia. ) 



Hardy, yellow-flowered annuals, from North 

 America. Seeds, in April, in a peat border. 

 S. pectina'ta (corah-leaved). 1. July. 1820. 



tenuifo'lia (fine-leaved). 1. July. 1730. 

 SHADDOCK. Ci'trus decuma'na. 

 SHADES are for prolonging the time 



of a plant's blooming, or promoting the 

 rooting of cuttings, by excluding the 

 sunlight. See Cuttings, Screens, and 

 Tulip. 



SHALLOT. See Eschalot. 



SHANKING is the technical term for a 



srm 



gangrene which attacks the footstalks 

 of grapes and the stems of cabbages 

 which have vegetated through the winter. 

 The shanking of the grape appears to be 

 occasioned by the soil becoming ex- 

 hausted, or by its temperature being too 

 much below that in which the branches 

 are vegetating ; and, consequently, the 

 supply of sap to the grapes being too 

 much diminished, the parts which thus 

 fail of support immediately begin to 

 decay: this is an effect always the^ con- 

 sequence of a diminished supply of sap, 

 apparent either in the leaves, flower, or 

 fruit. Shanking rarely appears in the 

 grape if the roots of the vine are within 

 the house. Shanking in the cabbage 

 arises from a very different cause, viz., 

 the freezing of the stalk of the cabbage 

 just where it comes in contact with the 

 soil. The best preventive is dressing 

 the soil with salt, about five bushels 

 per acre, late in the autumn, and 

 sprinkling charred vegetable matters 

 among them. See Damping-off. 



SHAEP CEDAE. Aca'cia oxyce'dnts and 

 Juni' perns oxyce'drns. 



SHIELD FERN. Aspi'dium. 



SHEEP LAUEEL. Ka'lmia angustifo'lia. 



SHEEP'S SCABIOUS. Jasio'ne. 



SHELLS. See Animal Matters. 



SHELTEE. See Screen. 



SHE -OAK. Casuari'na quadriva'lvis. 



SHEPHEED'S BEARD. Arnopo'gon. 



SHEPHEED'S CLUB. Verba'scum 

 Tha'psus. 



SHEPHE'EDIA. (Named after the late 

 W. Shepherd, curator of the Botanic 

 Garden. Nat. ord., Oleasters [Elseag- 

 naceffi]. Linn., %%-Dicecia &-Tetrandria> 

 Allied to Hippophae.) 



Hardy deciduous shrubs from North Ame- 

 rica. Generally by suckers; frequently by 

 seeds ; deep sandy loam. Good shrubs for 

 lawns or shrubberies. 



S. arge'ntea (silvery). 10. April. 1820. 



Canade'nsis (Canadian). 10. April. 1759. 



SHIFTING. See Potting and One-shift 

 \ System. 



SHEEDS for fastening trees to Avails, 

 &c., are best made of the list or selvage 

 torn from black or blue cloth, and may 

 be obtained of any tailor. The smallest 

 possible number of shreds, and the 

 narrowest consistent with strength 

 should be employed ; for wherever the 



