Five species. Stove evergreen climbers. Cuttings. Turfy loam and peat. S. grandiflora. Mr. J. Brown, gardener at Whittlebury Lodge, near Towcester, says that -

"After it attains to the height of from three to five feet, it must not be shifted, but allowed to remain in as small a pot as it will grow in until the roots become matted round the inside. Early in autumn keep it in a cool situation, and allow it to become perfectly dry, when the leaves will drop off. About the beginning of November, introduce it into heat, and force gently, supplying it plentifully with water when it begins to grow. Being thus excited for a short time, the plant grows freely, and produces blossom-buds on the young wood, and at the end of each shoot; these in January and February expand. As soon as it has done flowering, which is generally in March, the shoots are to be cut back, and the plant, being shifted, put into heat and encouraged to grow, stopping the young shoots frequently, to induce it to throw out laterals, and to keep it dwarfed. By this treatment it very often forms spurs similar to a pear or apple-tree, at the ends of which, after allowing the roots to become matted in the pot, giving it a rest, and keeping it dry and cool from August till November, blossoms are produced in abundance, upon its being put again into heat." - Gard. Chron.