ON A NEWLY IMPORTED SALVIA. 51 



Having potted them singly into small pots in a rich soil, I 

 placed them in a shady situation, upon a bed of coal ashes, and 

 where they were sheltered from the wind, in this place they soon 

 established themselves. 



At the beginning of September, I had a few of the best repot- 

 ted in rich earth and placed in the greenhouse, which soon came 

 into bloom, and continued to flower for a long time. The remain- 

 ing plants were plunged in a cold frame where they were protect- 

 ed from the severity of the winter, and early in the following 

 spring I cut off the the tops and side shoots, and struck them 

 along with Petunias Heliotropes, &c. About the middle of May 

 of this year, I turned them out into the open ground in order to 

 have an entire bed in the flower garden ; they soon began flower- 

 ing, and continued a mass of bloom till autumn, making a very 

 beautiful appearance. 



From these plants I continued to propagate during summer, 

 and now have near four hundred plants to furnish the greenhouse 

 with for the approaching months, and to have a supply to turn 

 out into the open borders and beds the next spring. 



I prefer plants from cuttings to those raised from seed, because 

 they begin to bloom very soon after planting out, whereas those 

 from seed generally grow bushy and too much foliage, and seldom 

 begin to bloom before late in summer, generally as far back as 



August. 



G. Geldert. 



ARTICLE III. 



REMARKS UPON A NEWLY-IMPORTED HALF-HARDY SPECIES OF 

 SALVIA, CALLED SALVIA PATENS. 



CV O. BliNTHAM, ESQ. 



The richness and variety of colouring observable in the nume- 

 rous species of Salvia, which adorn the mountains of South Ame- 

 rica, and Mexico, have long been known to Botanists, but it has 

 happened that few of them have hitherto found their way into our 

 gardens. The S. splendcns fulgens, Grahamii, and Mexicani oc- 

 cupy, it is true, the place in our collections they so eminently de- 

 serve, and some few others of considerable beauty, such as S. Ieu- 

 cantha, leonuroides, angustiiolia, Sec. are occasionally to be met 



