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AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF 



Saxifraga moschata. — A scented variety of this large family of 

 Alpine plants, from t4ie Pyrenees. 



Scabiosa atropurpurea (Sweet Scabious). — A common plant known in 

 cottage gardens as Mournfnl Widow. It is biennial in character, 

 and bears flowers of various colours that are pleasingly honey- 

 scented. 



Scsevola suaveolens. — An herbaceous shrub from the Sandwich Islands. 



Schinus. — A family of shrubby trees^ mostly natives of tropical 

 America^ the leaves of some of the species are so charged with a 

 resinous fluid, that they fill the air with a pleasing fragrance after 

 rain. S. JJoUe is the Pepper shrub of Peru, bearing bunches of 

 beautiful waxy, currant-like fruit, and the whole plant is both 

 ornamental and highly fragrant. 



Schismatopera distich ophy 11a. — A small tree from tropical South 

 America, bearing minute greenish-white, sweet-scented flowers. 



Schizandra grandiflora. — A climbing shrub from the Himalayas, 

 with white, scented flowers and aromatic foliage. 



Schizopetalum Walkeri. — An annual from Chili, bearing white, 

 scented flowers that emit a fragrance resembling Almonds. 



Schubertia. — A genus of twining shrubs from tropical America. *S'. 

 grandiflora, with its umbels of white flowers, something like 

 Stephanotis, possesses a powerful odour, most agreeable some dis- 

 tance ofl". S. graveoleiis is another dainty variety, bearing white, 

 sweet-smelling, funnel-shaped blossoms, very useful for cutting, as 

 they last a long time in water. 



Scilla nutans [Blue Bells). — The English Hyacinth, whose Hawthorn- 

 scented and sweet drooping flowers are the cliief ornaments of our 

 woods in May, has scarcely been less celebrated by our poets than 

 by the ancients in their fables. A fair poetess contemplates its 

 beauties under the popular name in the following delightful strain : — 



' Bluebell ! liow gaily art thou dressed, 



How neat and trim thou art, sweet flower ; 

 How silky is thy azure vest, 



How fresh to flaunt at morning's hour I 

 Couldst thou but think, I might well say 



Thou art as proud in rich array 

 As lady, blithesome, young and vain, 

 Prank'd up with folly and disdain, 



Sweet flower. 

 Sweet flovrer, whose modest beauties blow 



Deep in the green and silent vale 

 Where willows, bending o'er the stream, 



Wave gently to the passing gale I ' 



'It is impossible to conceive any bulbous or other plant more 

 beautiful than the Scilla when fairly cultivated. They are also 



