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taken up in autumn if it is thought 

 necessary to remove these; but other- 

 wise they may remain in the ground 

 several years without sustaining any 

 injury. 



ScitaminejE. — Hot-house plants 

 with reed -like stems, long broad 

 leaves and showy flowers, which are 

 usually fragrant. 



Scorpion grass. — See Myosotis. 



ScoRproN Senna. — Coronilla 

 emenes. — See Coronilla. 



Scorpi'urus. — Leguminosce. — 

 Caterpillars. Annuals with yellow 

 pea-flowers, the seed-vessels of which 

 resemble caterpillars. The species are 

 all natives of the south of Europe, 

 and they are all quite hardy in Bri- 

 tish gardens. 



Scorzone'ra. — Composite. — 

 Viper's Grass. Handsome peren- 

 nials, with purple, pink, or yellow 

 flowers, quite hardy in British gar- 

 dens and growing in any common 

 garden soil. 



Scotch Laburnum. — Cytisus al- 

 pinus. — See Cytisus. 



Scottia. — Leguminosce. — An 

 Australian shrub with reddish pea 

 flowers, quite hardy in British gar- 

 dens, if grown in sandy peat. 



Screens differ from sieves in hav- 

 ing the wires in parallel lines, and 

 not reticulated ; and in being too 

 large to be shaken by the hands. A 

 screen consists of a number of paral- 

 lel wires fixed in a wooden frame, 

 and supported at one end by two 

 wooden posts, while the other rests 

 against the ground ; and the earth to 

 be sifted is thrown by spadefuls 

 against the wires, so that while the 

 mould passes through them, the 

 atones and rubbish fall on the side 

 next the gardener. The earth must 

 be well broken with the spade before 

 it is thrown upon the screen, and the 

 operation can only be performed when 

 the weather is dry. 



Scrophularia. — Scrophularinece. 



— Figwort. Perennial plants with 

 brownish flowers, mostly natives of 

 Europe, and growing in any common 

 garden soil. 



Scutellaria. — Labiates — Skull- 

 cap. Handsome perennial plants, ge- 

 nerally with blue flowers, but the 

 flowers of some of which are some- 

 times pink, yellow, white, or purple ; 

 all being shaped like those of the 

 snap-dragon. Some of the species are 

 natives of Britain and other parts of 

 Europe, and others of North Ame- 

 rica and Australia. They all grow 

 best in peat or in very sandy loam ; 

 and they are all quite hardy in Bri- 

 tish gardens. 



Sea Buckthorn. — Hippophae 

 rhamndides. — See Hippophae. 



Sea Heath. — See Frankenia. 



Sea Holly. — Eryngium Aqui- 

 fdlium. — An umbelliferous peren- 

 nial with blue flowers, a native of 

 Spain, which should be grown in very 

 sandy loam. 



Sea Lavender. — See Statice v . 



Sea Ragwort. — Cineraria mari- 

 tima. — A half-hardy dwarf shrub 

 with yellow flowers, a native of the 

 south of Europe, which is generally 

 grown in a greenhouse, in a mixture 

 of loam and peat. 



Sea-side Balsam. — Croton Eleu- 

 teria. — A native of Jamaica. — See 

 Croton. 



Seats for gardens are either open 

 or covered ; the latter being in the 

 form of root-houses, huts, pavilions, 

 temples, grottos, &c, and the former 

 being either fixed, temporary, or port- 

 able. Fixed seats are commonly of 

 stone, either plain stone benches with- 

 out backs, or stone supports to wooden 

 benches. Sometimes also, wooden 

 seats are fixed, as when they are 

 placed round a tree, or when boards 

 are nailed to posts, or when seats are 

 formed in imitation of mushrooms, as 

 in the grounds at Redleaf. Fixed 

 seats are also sometimes formed of 



