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they should be kept dry in the soil they 
have been growing in. 
STEPHANOTIS (Bot. Beg.) Nat. 
Ord. Apocynacea ?. These noble stove 
climbers grow with great freedom when 
allowed sufficient root room, and are 
supplied with rich loam and peat in 
about equal quantities. They may either 
be planted into the borders of the house, 
and trained over the pillars and roof, or 
placed in a large pot having a good- 
sized trellis attached to it; in either 
position the effect produced by their 
deep green and ample fleshy leaves, en¬ 
riched by the numerous clusters of pure 
white waxy flowers, is, perhaps, unsur¬ 
passed, and in addition, the blossoms of 
S. floribunda have a strong delicious 
perfume. 
STE VIA (Cavanilles.) Nat. Ord. 
Composite. Useful plants for bedding 
purposes, on account of their bloom¬ 
ing late in the autumn; the several 
species have flowers of various shades, 
some are white or pink, others violet or 
purple. They require to be potted in 
the autumn, and kept through the win¬ 
ter in a good pit. 
STRELITZIA (Aiton.) Nat. Ord. 
Musacece. These are handsome plants, 
with large pale-green leaves, and sin¬ 
gular richly-coloured flowers. S. regmce 
is the most common, and perhaps the 
most beautiful; its flowers are brilliant 
orange and purple. It is usual to grow 
the species as stove plants, but they 
succeed almost equally in the green¬ 
house, placed in large pots of rich loam, 
and kept in a light part of the house at 
all times, except for a couple of months, 
between June and September, when 
they are best out of doors. They will 
thus grow and flower finely. 
_ STBEPTOCABPUS ( Bindley. ) 
Nat. Ord. Cyrtandracece. A very neat 
and pretty dwarf plant, with velvet leaves 
and lilac flowers, produced freely all the 
summer; like the last, this may be grown 
either in the greenhouse or stove, and 
indeed we have seen it used as a bedding 
plant for the open borders, where, in a 
warm situation, it produced a multitude 
of blossoms. It will bear almost any 
treatment, but does best in pots of 
sandy peat, in a brisk growing heat, 
through the early stages of its growth, 
say from March to May, after which the 
greenhouse or open air will preserve its 
flowers for a long time, and being pro¬ 
duced in rapid succession, the plant 
will be an object of beauty for at least 
four or five months. 
STYLIDIUM (Swartz.) Nat. Ord. 
Stylidiacece . Neat little greenhouse 
plants, each of the numerous stems pro¬ 
ducing a copiously-filled spike of small 
rose-coloured flowers. The species grow 
freely in sandy peat and loam; they 
should be cut down annually after flower¬ 
ing, and require some care to preserve 
them free of mildew through the damp 
weather of winter; a light airy shelf is 
the best preventive, and a sprinkling 
of sulphur on the affected parts will 
generally remove it. 
STYPHELIA (Smith.) Nat. Order 
Epacridacece. These are beautiful addi¬ 
tions to the greenhouse collection, and, 
coming from New Holland, require only 
to have plenty of air, a light soil, such 
as sandy peat and a small proportion of 
loam, to ensure good plants and an abun¬ 
dant blooming. Their treatment is, in 
fact, the same as is usually pursued with 
the whole order to which they belong. 
SUTHERLANDIA (B. Brown.) 
Nat. Ord. LeguminosfE . S.fructescens is 
a showy plant, sufficiently hardy to be 
planted against a wall, and to remain 
there, with the protection of a mat or 
shutters in winter; through the summer 
its bright green pinnate leaves and scar¬ 
let flowers have a very pleasing effect. 
It delights in rich loam and peat, well 
drained, but amply supplied with water 
in dry weather. 
SWAIN SONIA. (Salisbury.) Nat. 
Ord. Legmiinosce. This genus closely 
resembles the last, and may be treated 
in the same way; they are also grown 
in pots in the greenhouse, in which case 
the young shoots should be frequently 
stopped in spring, and, after flowering, 
the stems should be cut down, or the 
plants soon become straggling and un¬ 
sightly. There are four species, having 
purple, red, or white flowers. 
SYMPHYTUM (Linn.) Nat. Ord. 
