Stigmaphyllon - Suffocation
Description
This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Stigmaphyllon - Suffocation
Stigmaphyllon
Four species. Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings. Peat and sandy loam.
S Til Ago
Two species. Stove evergreen trees. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Stitchwort
Stellaria.
Stobaea
Stobaea pinnata. Green-house evergreen shrub. Young cuttings. Light rich soil.
Stock-Gilliflower
See Wall-' flower.
Stcebe
Four species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Young cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Stokesia
Stokesia cyanea. Green-house herbaceous perennial. Seeds or division. Common soil.
Stonecrop
Stone Pine
Pinus Pinea.
Stopping
Stopping is pinching or nipping off the extremity of a branch to prevent its further extension in length. It is frequently done either to promote its robustness, or to promote the production of laterals.
Storax
Styrax.
Stork's Bill
Stranvaesia
Stranvaesia glaucescens. Hardy evergreen tree. Grafting or budding. Common soil.
Strapwood
St Ratio Tes
St Ratio Tes aloides. Water Soldier. Hardy aquatic perennial. Suckers. Loam and peat.
Stravadium
Three species. Stove evergreen trees. Layers. Sandy-peat.
Strawberry Blite
Strawberry Spinach
Blitum.
Strawberry Tree
Strelitzia
Eight species. Stove herbaceous perennials. Suckers. Turfy loam.
Streptanthera
Two species. Green-house bulbous perennials. Offsets. Loam and peat.
Streptan'Thus
Two species. Hardy annuals. Seeds. Common soil.
Streptium
Streptium asperum. Stove herbaceous perennial. Cuttings. Loam and peat.
Streptocarpus
Streptocarpus rexii. Stove herbaceous perennial. Division. Rich soil and vegetable mould.
Streptopus
Five species. Herbaceous perennials; all hardy except S. simplex, which belongs to the greenhouse. Seeds or division. Light soil.
Strobilaxthes
Strobilaxthes Sabiniana. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Light rich soil.
Stropanthus
Three species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Strumaria
Ten species. Greenhouse bulbous perennials. Offsets. Sandy loam.
Struthiola
Fifteen species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Sandy peat.
Struthiopteris
Two species. Ferns. Hardy herbaceous perennials. Division. Loam and peat.
Strychnos
Six species. Stove evergreen trees. S. colubrina is a climber. Half-ripe cuttings and seeds. Loam and sandy peat. Nux vomica is one of the species.
Stylidium
Nine species. Greenhouse herbaceous perennials or evergreen shrubs. The latter increases by cuttings, a few of the herbaceous by division, but chiefly by seeds. Sandy loam and peat suit them all.
Stypandra
Five species. Greenhouse herbaceous perennials. S.fru-tescens an evergreen shrub. Division. Sandy loam and peat.
Styphelia
Eight species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Young cut-tings, Sandy peat and sandy loam.
Styrax
Four species. Hardy deciduous shrubs. S. officinale produces the balsam of storax. Layers. Light soil.
Succowia
Succowia balearica. Hardy annual. Seeds. Light soil.
Suffocation
Suffocation is a term employed by Keith and others to describe any stopping of the transpiratory organs of plants, whether it arises from extrava-sated sap, mosses, fungi, or even from a deficient supply of sap.
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