. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ^^53«S\^ 2288. Natural planting or maple seeds. S. Brafiiill. otiered by KreI;Lt,n?, T-L-in,rl«m, Hnlland, appears not to be recoenized hv botanists.—-S'. Calahricitm is a najne given withont description to an Italian species, whir-h is still offered by Krelage.—;S. cUhlle, Watson, an American species, was offe
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ^^53«S\^ 2288. Natural planting or maple seeds. S. Brafiiill. otiered by KreI;Lt,n?, T-L-in,rl«m, Hnlland, appears not to be recoenized hv botanists.—-S'. Calahricitm is a najne given withont description to an Italian species, whir-h is still offered by Krelage.—;S. cUhlle, Watson, an American species, was offered in 1881 by collectors, but is probably not in enlt. anywhere—5. Douglasii, Hook., is a yellow-fid. species from. Oregon which, is now offered in the East, but is probably not cult, in Eu. It grows 4 in. high, and flowers from June until Aug. Said to be annual. Lvs. lanceolate, %-%. in- long, acute. — 8. Oregdnum, Nutt., was offered by collectors of western American plants in 1881, but is not known to be cult.—^. spe- cidsum, Hort.^?—S. tectb)-um, tectorum. —S. trifiduin, Wall., is notoffered in America, but should be in evei-y fancier's collection. It is immediately distinguished from all others described above by the pinnatitid foliage, which is massed at the top of the stems and makes a fine setting for the flusters of fls., being twice as wide as the latter. Height 1 ft.: fls. purplish, red or crimson. Himalayas. Gn, 27, p. 317. W. M. SEEDAGE. Under this term may he included all knowledge respecting the propagation of plants by means of seeds or spores. The word was first used, so far as the writer is aware, in 1887. It is equivalent to the French semis, and is comparable with the words graftage, layerage and cuttage. In general literature and common speech, a seed is that part of the plant which is the otttcome of flowering and which is used for propagating the species. In the technical or botanical sense, however, the seed is the rip
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