. 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. 2288. Natural planting of maple seeds. S. Braimii, offered by Krelage. Haarlem, Holland, appears not to be recognized by botanists.—S. Caldbricum is a name given without description to .an Italian species, whieh is still offered by Krelage.—S. dehile, Watson, an American species, was offered in 1881 by collecto
. 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. 2288. Natural planting of maple seeds. S. Braimii, offered by Krelage. Haarlem, Holland, appears not to be recognized by botanists.—S. Caldbricum is a name given without description to .an Italian species, whieh is still offered by Krelage.—S. dehile, Watson, an American species, was offered in 1881 by collectors, but is probably not in cult, anywhere.—.S. Douglasii, Hook., is a yellow-fld. 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, ^-H in. long, acute. — ,S. Oregdnum, Nutt., was offered by collectors of western American plants in 18S1, but is not known to be cult.—S. spe- cibsum, — Scop,=Sempervi\nirQ tectorum. —, Wall., is notoffered in America, but should be in eveiT fancier's collection. It is immediately distinguished from all others described above by the pinnatifid foliage, which is massed at the top of the stems and makes a fine setting for the clusters of lis., 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 terra may be included all knowledge respecting the propagation of plants by means of seeds or spores. Tlie 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 outcome of flowering and which is used for propagating the species. In the technical or botanical sense, however, the seed is the ripened ovule. The seed contai
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