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Palma- Christ! ; remarkable for large palmated leaves; tall, dwarf, 



red-stalked. 

 Pea, sweet-scented of which there are many varieties may be 



sown on very dry ground about the end of February, to give 



early flowers and ripe seed ; afterwards at any time till the 



middle of May. 

 Poppy many sorts bad enough weeds, that need no sowing ; 



the carnation and dwarf-corn are worthy of a place. 

 Russian stock. 



Scabious, sweet starry- flowered. 

 Schizanthus-pennatus of sorts. 

 Snail Plants ; taking the name from the form of the seed-pods 



perhaps a dozen varieties. 

 Snapdragon : see Antirrhinum. 

 Stockgillyflower, Ten-weeks'-stock red, purple, white, scarlet, 



variegated each double, wallflower-leaved, of various colours, 



single and double : well worthy of a place in the alphabetical 



articles, which see. 

 Strawberry-blite ; the fruit resembling the strawberry, but not 



eatable. 



Sultan. flower, or Sweet-sultan yellow, purple, red, white. 

 Sunflower; giant, dwarf each double yellow, pale yellow. 



See notice in alphabetical order. 

 Tobacco Plant long- broad- narrow-leaved. Once sown in this 



country in the fields for a crop, but requires management to 



bring it to flower. 



Venus'-looking-glass blue, purple, white. 

 Virgin-stock purple and white. 

 Xeranthemum or Everlasting- flower white, red, purple, and 



blue ; remarkable for keeping its colour and form when dried. 



For the sowing of the above, the last week of 

 April (but earlier according to climate) or the first of 

 May, when the weather is fair and the ground in the 

 finest state of dryness, is the proper season, although 

 some sorts may be sown at different times for a suc- 

 cession of flowers. Too little earth can scarcely be 

 given for a covering, considering how many annuals, 



