Shrubbery

Shrubbery is a garden, or portion of a garden, devoted to the cultivation of shrubs. It is not necessary, as Mr. Glenny observes, "That there should be any flowers or borders to constitute a shrubbery, but there should be great taste in forming clumps, and grouping the various foliages and styles of growth. The groundwork in such a garden consists of gravel walks and lawn. If flowers be intermixed, or, which is very generally adopted, there be a space left all round the clumps to grow flowers in, it becomes a dressed or pleasure ground, rather than a shrubbery. - Though any part of a ground in which shrubs form the principal feature, is still called a shrubbery. - Card, and Prac. Flor.

Shrubs

Shrubs are trees of a dwarf growth, not exceeding in height twelve or fifteen feet, unless they are climbers, and having, if permitted, branches and foliage clothing the entire length of their stems.

Shuteria

Shuteria bicolor. Stove evergreen twiner. Seeds. Rich light loam.

Shuttlecock

Peripetera punicea.

Sibbaldia

Four species and some varieties. Hardy herbaceous perennials, or evergreen trailers. Division. Loam, peat and sand.

Siberian Crab

Pyrns pruni-folia.

Siberian Pea Tree

Car a-gana.

Sibthorpia

Sibthorpia europcea. Hardy herbaceous creeper. Division. Peaty soil, and a moist situation.

Sida

Sixteen species. Hardy annuals, biennials, and herbaceous perennials; and stove evergreen shrubs. Seeds. Rich soil. The shrubby kinds are also increased by cuttings.

Sideritis

Eighteen species. Hardy annuals and herbaceous perennials, and hardy, half-hardy and greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings, seeds, and division. Dry sand or chalk.

Siderodendron

Siderodendron triflorum. Stove evergreen tree. Cuttings. Loam, peat, and sand.

Sidesaddle Flower

Sarra-cenia.

Siegesbeckia

Six species. Hardy annuals. Seeds. Common soil.

Sieve

See Measures.

Sieversia

Seven species. Hardy herbaceous perennials. Seeds or division. Light soil.

Silene

Catch Fly. One hundred and fifty-one species. Chiefly hardy annuals, biennials, and herbaceous perennials. Seeds. Light rich soil. The shrubby kinds increase by young cuttings also. A few are green-house biennials.

Silk Cotton Tree

Bombax.

Silk Tree

Acacia Julibrissin.

Selphium

Three species. Hardy herbaceous perennials. Division. Common soil.

Silver Tree

Leucadendron se-riceum.

Simaba

Two species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings. Turfy loam and peat.

Sinapis

Mustard. Six species. Chifly hardy annuals. S. frutescens is a green-house evergreen shrub. S. medicaulis a perennial. Seeds. Common soil.

Sinningia

Six species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat and loam.

Siphocamphylus

Four species. Stove and hardy evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Light sandy soil.

Sirex

Sirex gigas. This fly pierces the fir, and other growing timber, depositing its eggs in the alburnum. M. Kol-lar says that: -

"In the seventh week after the eggs are laid, the maggot has attained its full size, and then generally buries itself six inches deep in the wood, where it is transformed in a cavity into a pupa, covered with a thin transparent skin. It remains in this state a long time; and examples are given of the perfect insect only making its appearance when the wood has been cut up for useful purposes".