Title: The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden
Identifier: centurybookofgar00cook (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, E. T. (Ernest Thomas), 1867-1915, ed
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London, The Offices of "Country life" (etc. )
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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SELAGINELLAS. 36q S. variabilis, is so called from the changes that take place in the colour of the leaves at different times of the day, being sometimes rich green, and at others almost white. It is of a flattened creeping habit and grows freely. S. umbrosa is often grown under the name of S. cassia, in reference to the beautiful metallic blue tint of its foliage. Its slender stems trail to a length of from ift. to 2ft., and are furnished at intervals on either side with regularly shaped frond-like branches. It is also very beautiful in a hanging basket. S. Wallichi grows to a height of from 2ft. to 3ft., its wide spreading branches being thickly clothed with large leaves of a dark shining green, quite distinct from the others. It forms a handsome specimen. S. Wildenovi, frequently met with under the name of S. cassia arborea, is a robust-growing climbing kind, its large flattened branches, which are in some cases 2ft. long, having leaves coloured as in S. uncinata. The few that may be successfully grown in a greenhouse are herewith given ; at the
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THE GATEWAY, TISSINGTON HALL, DERBYSHIRE. same time, they will grow equally as well in the stove : S. apoda, S. inasqualifolia, S. involvens, S. Kraussiana and its varieties, S. Martensi, and S. Poulteri. Selaginellas are not, except in a few instances, difficult to manage, as they creep about in a free way, making quite a mossy covering to everything they cover with their fresh green growths. The dwarf kinds represented by Selaginella Kraussiana are here referred to. It must be remembered that some species are almost, if not quite, hardy, and these are very useful for covering the soil in a hardy Fernery or rock garden where the position is moist and not too exposed to the sun, otherwise the plants would be quickly burnt up. S. Kraussiana is the most hardy of all, and will survive out of doors even near London. A narrow border of this in a suburban garden, in which the plants used were Selaginellas and the common fragrant Musk', formed in every way a happy companionship. If only one hind

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