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SALVIA. 
grow in such situations very rapidly. 
The Weeping Willow (Saliz Baby- 
lonica) has been known to grow 
twenty feet high in ten years, and 
the other species to increase in a_ 
similar proportion. All the com- / 
mon Weeping Willows grown in| 
England are female plants, and it 
is supposed that the kind imported 
from St. Helena, and called Napo- | 
leon’s Weeping Willow, is the male | 
plant. Of the tall shrubby kinds | 
of Willow, Salix capre‘a, the great | 
round-leaved Sallow, or Grey Withy, | 
is perhaps the handsomest; and it | 
is the flowering branches ‘of this | 
species that are called Palms in the | 
neighbourhood of London, and are_ 
gathered by children on Easter 
Sunday. The Willow will grow in | 
any soil which is not too dry; and 
it is propagated by cuttings, which 
strike root when merely put into) 
the ground, without any other trouble | 
being taken with them. 
Sattow.— A kind of Willow, | 
with roundish shaggy leaves. 
Saupicio’ssis. — Solandcee or 
Scrophularinee. — Very beautiful | 
half-hardy. annual plants, natives 
of Chili. The seeds should be sown | 
in February on a slight hotbed ; 
and the young plants should be 
planted out in May. Thesoil should | 
be loam mixed with one-third of. 
peat or sand; and the situation | 
should be sheltered, and partially | 
shaded; as, if the collar of the plant | 
come partially woody, like the Mig- 
nionette. There are many different 
kinds, which are made species by 
some botanists, but which are now. 
generally allowed to be only varie-— 
ties. Many gardeners sow the seeds 
in autumn, and keep the plants in 
frames all the winter, that they may 
flower early in spring. 
Saso'La.— Chenopodacee.—-Salt- 
wort. Annual and biennial suc- 
culent plants which grow wild on 
the sea-coast in Britain, and which 
are sometimes cultivated for their 
curiously-shaped round stems. Soda 
is made from one of the species. 
SaLt-TREE. — See Ha imope'n- 
DRON. 
SaLt-wort.—See Satso‘na. 
Sa’ty1a. — Labidte— The Sage. 
No one who has only seen the com- 
mon Sage growing in a kitchen- 
garden could imagine the splendid- 
ly flowering-plants which belong to 
the genus Salvia. Some of these, 
as for example S. formésa, are 
| shrubby and have dark scarlet flow- 
/ers; and others, such as SN. patens, 
have their flowers of the richest 
blue ; others, such as WS. atrea, 
have golden yellow flowers ; others, 
‘such as S. denidta, have white 
flowers ; and in others, such as 
S. involucrata, and S. purptrea, 
the flowers are purple. Besides 
' these, some of the kinds have violet 
flowers, and others pink or crim- 
son ; and the different kinds of Cla- 
should be exposed to the burning | ry (S. horménum) are not ee a 
heat of the sun, so as to become | ‘ted for their flowers at all, 
withered, the plant will die off | merely because the points of ihe 
suddenly. It is also very easily | shoots are so, deeply tinted as to 
killed by the collar being exposed | have the appearance of flowers. 
to stagnant moisture.. When grown | The plants differ in their habits as 
in pots, it should be frequently | much as in their flowers; some 
shifted, always into pots only a lit-| are shrubby, some perennial, some 
tle larger than the previous ones, | biennial, and some aunual; and 
so as to make the plant bushy. It 
varies very much according to the 
soil and situation in which it is 
grown; and if kept through the 
winter in a greenhouse, it will be- 
a 
some are so tender as to require a 
stove; while others must be ke 
in a frame or greenhouse, and the 
greater part are quite hardy in the 
open air. All the kinds should be Se 
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