. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. SH A 543 S HR ply of sap to the grapes is too much diminished, and the parts which thus fail of support immediately begin to decay; this is an effect always the con- sequence of a diminished supply of sap, apparent either in the leaves, flower, or fruit. The disease, like every other putrefaction, does not advance rapidly | unless there be much moisture in the atmosphere. Shanking never appears in the grape if the roots of the vine are within the house. Shanking in the cabbage arises from a very different cause, viz., the freezing of the stalk of
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. SH A 543 S HR ply of sap to the grapes is too much diminished, and the parts which thus fail of support immediately begin to decay; this is an effect always the con- sequence of a diminished supply of sap, apparent either in the leaves, flower, or fruit. The disease, like every other putrefaction, does not advance rapidly | unless there be much moisture in the atmosphere. Shanking never appears in the grape if the roots of the vine are within the house. Shanking in the cabbage arises from a very different cause, viz., the freezing of the stalk of the cabbage just where it comes in con- tact with the soil. The best preventive is dressing the soil with salt, about five bushels per acre, late in the autumn. SHARP CEDAR. Acacia oxycedrus and Juniperus oxycedrus. SHEARS are of various kinds, dif- fering in form according to the purpose for which they are intended. Hedge- shears for clipping hedges are the most common. Sliding Pruning Shears withamove- able centre so as to make a drawing cut when used as when the pruning knife is employed. See Averruncator. The drawing shows the smaller size, used with one hand. See Scissors. The large size, which has wood handles, will, when em- ployed with both hands, cut through a bough full three inches in circum- ference, with the greatest ease. Verge Shears are merely the hedge shears set near- ly at a right angle on long handles for the conveni- ence of the gardener in clipping the sides of box edging, and the verge of grass plots. Turf Shears are set also at an angle, but in a different direction for cutting the tops of edgings, and grass growing in corners unapproachable by the scythe. SHEEP LAUREL. Kalmia angusti- folia. SHELLS. See Animal Matters. SHELTER. See Screen. SHEPHERD I A. Two species. Hardy deciduous trees. Layers. Peat and loam, or common soil. SHEPHERD'S BEARD. Amopogon. Fig. SHEPHERD'S CLUB. Verbascum Thapsus. SHIFTINC. See Potting and One- shift System. SHREDS f
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