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A GARDEN FLORA 
S. Van Houttei. Garden origin. 
6 feet high by 10 feet through. One of the most 
beautiful of Spiraeas, which flowers in May and 
forms a thick bush. Here, at an altitude of 450 
feet, it is spared to a great extent its worst enemy, 
the spring frost. 
S. sp. 5305. China. 
S. sp. 
S. sp. 
SPREKELIA. Amaryllidaceee. 
|S. formosissima. Jacobea Lily. Mexico, Guatemala. 
STACHYS. Labiatae. 
S. lanata. Caucasus, etc. 
STACHYURUS. Temstroemiacese. 
S. praecox. Japan. 
Of which several plants are growing in the Wall 
Garden, measures 5 feet high and 11 feet through, 
and flowers in February, the yellow flowers hanging 
from the leafless branches. The fruit formed for 
the first time in 1916. 
S. chinensis. China. 
STAPELIA. Asclepiadeae. 
fS. sp. 
STAPHYLEA. Bladder Nut. Sapindaceae. 
S. colchica. S. Caucasus. 
Flowers well in the open : one bush measures 
14 feet high by 13 feet through. 
S. Coulombieri (pinnata, probably x colchica). 
„ var. grandiflora. 
„ var. Hessei. 
The pink, striped flowers are larger than the 
flowers of S. colchica. 
STATICE. Plumbaginaceae. 
S. latifolia. Bulgaria, etc. 
fS. profusa. Garden origin. 
*S. rosea. S. Africa. 
