110 ON REVIVING WITHERED PLANTS. 
Noisettes—Aimée Vibert. f , 
China—Cramoise Supérieure, Madame Brecon, Mrs. Bosanquet, 
Comte de Paris, Eliza Sauvage. 
Tea-scented—Nephethos, Safranot. 
SALVIA GESNERIFLORA. 
Last summer one of our correspondents requested us to state what 
treatment must be pursued to induce this very splendid plant to flower. 
Till this application was made to us, we were not aware of any diffi- 
culty relative to its blooming. With us it has flowered profusely, and 
its large brilliant scarlet blossoms were highly ornamental, 
We inserted our method of treatment in the Magazine for September 
last, page 100, In Mr. Paxton’s Magazine of Gardening and Botany 
for the present month, the following remarks on this fine Salvia are 
inserted :— 
“ Salvia Gesnerifiora.—Several specimens of this Heath we remarked 
coming freely into flower in the gardens of the Dowager Duchess of 
Northumberland, Sion House. This species is not very generally cul- 
tivated, owing’to the nature of the plant not being thoroughly under- 
stood, particularly its period of flowering, which is during the first 
three months of the year. Mr. Iveson, the gardener, informed us that 
the young plants were turned out into the border during summer, to 
allow for full scope of growth, and, before frost, taken up, potted, and 
placed in the greenhouse; and during January, when other species of 
Salvias are going out, this commences and continues flowering for three 
months. The flowers are a bright scarlet, produced in pendant 
masses.” 
With us, as also in the Royal Gardens of Kew, it continued to bloom 
till August, and no doubt, if suitable attention were paid, plants might 
easily be brought to succeed others, so as to have it in bloom all the 
year. It deserves to be in every greenhouse or conservatory. 
This, as well as Salvia spendens, fulgens, speciosa, coccinea, pseuda 
coccinea, and splendens nana, are very valuable plants for the green- 
house, sitting-room, or conservatory. They produce a beautiful effect 
through autumn and winter, their brilliant blossoms being highly orna- 
mental, and some of them fragrant.- They are all easy of cultivation, 
and by stopping the leading shoots of plants in summer, causing them 
to push lateral ones, the season of bloom may be retarded to almost any 
period desired. We have long been surprised that these fine plants 
have not been more generally cultivated, especially for winter orna- 
ments, when all flowers are valuable. They may be procured at a very 
small cost, and, being readily propagated, a stock of kinds once 
obtained can be easily kept. Besides these advantages, some of them 
are splendid ornaments for the open beds and borders. 
ON REVIVING WITHERED PLANTS. 
BY FLORA. 
Ir may perhaps be useful to state the method I have adopted to recover 
withered plants. I lately received some Pinks and Carnations from a 
