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JOUENAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



S. caesia, S. squarrosa, S. tomhea'nensis, and S. tyrolensis ; their white 

 flowers glisten above dense silvered tufts, and the places for these are 

 fissures and crevices. — H. R. D. 



Scale-eating- Moths. By W. W. Froggatt (Agr. Gaz. N.S.W. 

 vol. xxi. pt. ix. p. 801 ; 1 col. plate). — The larva of Thalpochares 

 coccophaga, T. pulvinariae, T. duhia, and T. pusilla devour brown and 

 white scale. T. coccophaga is a pretty little brown and grey moth. 

 The tiny caterpillars, when first hatched, feed on the scale larvae, but 

 afterwards attack the adult scale. They cover their backs with the 

 skins of the devoured coccids as a protection against their enemies. 



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School Gardens. By "Mangold" {Oester. Gart. Zeit. vol. v. 

 pt. V. pp. 168-171).— The school garden should have an area of 100 to 

 150 square yards, and should contain specimens of the ordinary in- 

 digenous trees and also fruit-trees. Other portions should be devoted 

 to the cultivation of typical vegetables and flowers. The children of 

 the three highest forms are to work at least one hour a week in the 

 garden. The boys devote their time chiefly to the fruit-trees, and the 

 girls attend to the vegetables and flow^ers. — aS'. E. W. 



Scilla, A New {Jour. Soc. Nat. Hort. Fr. ser. iv. vol. xi. p. 17; 

 Jan. 1910). — M. A. Chabert describes a new species of Scilla in the 

 " Bull, de la Soc. Bot. de France." Scilla Kahylica Chabert is said 

 to be an ornamental plant worthy of cultivation. It bears six to 

 fifteen dark blue flowers. — M. L. H. 



Scutellaria violacea {Bot. Mag. tab. 8320).— Nat. ord. 

 Lahiatae; tribe Stachydeae. India and Ceylon. Herb perennial-; 

 stem 2 feet high ; leaves ovate, 3 inches long, subacute ; racemes 

 terminal, 3^-6 inches long, many flowered; corolla, f inch long, violet 

 with white blotches on the lip. — G. H. 



Sequoia gig^antea. By J. Feigl-Lomnitz {Oester. Gart. Zeit. vol. v. 

 pt. ii. pp. 55-56; 1 fig.). — Sequoia, grown from seed sown in 1870, 

 has attained a height of 15 metres in garden of the castle at Lomnitz. 



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Shortias. By E. H. Jenkins {Garden, April 2, 1910, p. 164; 

 fig.). — These form a small genus named after an American botanist. 

 Dr. Short, containing some three species, only two of which are known 

 to cultivators. They are untouched by the cold or the incessant changes 

 of an English winter, and at that season assume a leaf beauty of 

 crimson and bronze all their owm. 



S. galacifolia was found by Michaux in N'orth Carolina in 1788, 

 and rediscovered and brought into general cultivation nearly a century 

 later. The plant grows in short compact tufts 6 to 9 inches high; 

 the nodding white flowers appearing in March and April are in effective 

 contrast with the coloured stalks and crimson calices. A rose-coloured 

 form is known. 



