Archive image from page 534 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 SEA-WEED. See Green Manure. S E B M A. Four species. Green- house annuals. Seeds. Peat and loam or common soil. SECAMONE. Three species. Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings. Sandy loam. SECURIDACA. Two species. Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings. Loam, peat, and sand. SECURIGERA coronilla. Hardy an- nual. Seeds. Common soil. SEDUM. Sixty-four species. Chiefly hardy herbaceous perennials; with a few annuals and biennials. These lat- ter grow well on rock work, and
Archive image from page 534 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 SEA-WEED. See Green Manure. S E B M A. Four species. Green- house annuals. Seeds. Peat and loam or common soil. SECAMONE. Three species. Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings. Sandy loam. SECURIDACA. Two species. Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings. Loam, peat, and sand. SECURIGERA coronilla. Hardy an- nual. Seeds. Common soil. SEDUM. Sixty-four species. Chiefly hardy herbaceous perennials; with a few annuals and biennials. These lat- ter grow well on rock work, and in- crease by seeds. The green-house spe- cies increase by partly ripe cuttings; the rest by cuttings or division. Sandy loam, or loam and brick rubbish. A few are evergreen shrubs and creepers. SEED ROOM. All that has been said relative to the Fruit Room, is applica- ble to this: everything promotive of decay or germination is to be avoided ; and if one relative direction more than another requires to be urged upon the gardener, it is comprised in these words —keep it as dry as possible: the room may be even hot, so that it is not damp. Mr. Forsyth says, that ' a dry room, hot room, or something very nearly re- sembling a slow corn-kiln, is essentially necessary in every garden, not only for seeds, but also for all other articles re- quiring drought, or liable to injury from damp, such as the nets and bunting for wall-trees and the like ; garden-mats ; glazed lights in wet weather, or when washed previous to painting ; and last, though not the least necessary, the proper drying of pot-herbs, a process seldom, if ever properly done.'—Gard. Chron. In such a room should be a nest of very shallow drawers or trays, divided into compartments, each holding a tin box three inches in diameter, and on the lid of each a label, inscribed with the name of the seed. Such an ar- rangement not only saves the seed, but saves the gardener's time, especially if the seeds are arranged alphabe
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