Sugar Bakers' Refuse - Syringe
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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.
Sugar Bakers' Refuse - Syringe
Sugar Bakers' Refuse
See Animal Matters.
Sumach
Rhus.
Sunflower
Actinotus Helianthi.
Sun Rose
Surface Grubs
Surface Grubs, or caterpillars, are the larva; of several species of Noctua, or Night Moths. Gardeners thus name them because they attack the roots of the turnip, mangold wurtzel, etc, just at the surface of the soil.
Sutherlandia
Sutherlandia frutescens. Half-hardy evergreen shrub. Seeds or young cuttings. Peat and loam.
Suwarrow Nut
Swainsonia
Three species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Young cuttings or seeds. Sandy loam and peat.
Swallow Wort
Swamp Locust Tree
Gledit-schia monosperma.
Swamp Post
Quercus lyrata.
Swartzia
Three species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings with the leaves on. Sandy loam and peat.
Swedish Beam Tree
Pyrus intermedia.
Swedish Turnip
Brassica cam-pestris; var. rutabaga.
Sweeping
See Broom. It is best done in calm weather, and early, whilst the dew is strong enough to allay the dust and keep the light refuse from blowing about.
Sweet Bay
Lanrus nobilis.
Sweet Briar
Rosa rubiginosa. It is of the easiest propagation in any common garden soil. Cuttings, suckers, and seed may be indifferently employed.
"To form a hedge of it sow the heps in the autumn as soon as ripe, or which is better, in the month of March, having kept them in the meanwhile mixed with sand. Hut it is far more convenient to buy sweet briar ' layers,' (young plants,) from the nurseryman, and to plant them a foot apart early in the month of November. Let them grow as they like for the first year, and cut them down to the: ground the second; they will then spring up and require no more care than occasional trimming with the pruning-knife or shears, so as to keep the hedge in shape. When it gets naked at the bottom it must be again cut down." - Gard. Chron.
Sweet Calabash
Passiflora maliformis.
Sweet Cicely
See Chervil.
Sweetia
Three species. Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings or seeds. Loam and sand.
Sweet Marjoram
Sweet Maudlin
Achillea age-ratum.
Sweet Pea
Lathyrus odoratus.
Sweet Potatoe
Sweet Sop
Anona squamosa.
Sweet Sultan
Swietenia
Two species. Stove evergreen trees. Ripe cuttings with the leaves on. Loam and sand.
Symphiandra
Symphiandra pendula. Hardy biennial. Seeds. Common soil.
Symphoricarpus
St. Peter's Wort. Three species. Hardy deciduous trees. Cuttings or suckers. Common soil.
Symphytum
Eight species. Hardy herbaceous or tuberous-rooted perennials. Division. Off-sets. Any soil suits them.
Sympiezia
Sympiezia capitellata. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Young cuttings. Turfy peat and sand.
Symplocos
Three species. Green-house evergreen shrubs, or stove evergreen trees. Cuttings. Loam, peat and sand.
Synnetia
Three species. Greenhouse bulbous perennials. Offsets. Sandy peat and loam.
Syringa
Lilac. Five species and many varieties. Hardy deciduous shrubs. Seeds, layers, or suckers. Common soil.
Syringe
This is a most useful implement for impelling water over plants in pots, wall-trees, etc. Read's syringes are excellent. When the object is merely to refresh the plants, the operator should stand at some distance from the plants, so that the water may spread and fall upon them like a shower. But if aphides have to be destroyed he may be closer to the plants, and drive forth the water with greater force.
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