ON PLANTS ADAPTED FOR PLANTING IN MASSES. 15 



and attention be bestowed upon them, Flora will, at her proper 

 season, reward us with a rich display of beautiful flowers. When 

 Nature has retired after performing her duties of the season, 

 remove the plants to their winter place of torpidity, there to re- 

 main till the next year shall require the same routine of culture ; 

 and here we may exclaim, with the poet — 



" Farewell, ye perishing and perished flowers ! 

 Ye shall revive when vernal skies are blue." 



Compost. — This is a very essential part, and should be particu- 

 larly observed, if a good produce of flowers is the object. The 

 proper ingredients should be in the following proportions : — One 

 barrowful of maiden hazel loam ; half ditto sandy peat ; quarter 

 ditto drift sand. These should be well chopped (not sifted) and 

 mixed several times during the preceding winter, to pulverise and 

 decompose the whole mixture. 



Propagation. — Some species may be increased by dividing the 

 roots at the time of potting, and all by means of single leaves with 

 the whole of the petiole (leaf-stalk) adhering to them. These, 

 with the root divisions, if put into the same frame with the old 

 plants, will soon strike plants for flowering next season. 



May 29lh, 1834. F. F. Ashford. 



ARTICLE VII. — On Plants which are peculiarly 

 adapted for Planting in Masses ; each kind being 

 showy and profuse in Flowering. By Flora. 



(continued FROM VOL. II., PAGE 280.) 



Salvia angustifolia, Narrow-leaved Sage. Diandria, Monogynia. 

 Labiatse. This very fine blue flowered Salvia is a most charming 

 plant. The fine azure blue flowers are produced in profusion, 

 and the plant not growing higher than from a foot to half a yard, 

 renders it a great favourte. It merits a place in every flower- 

 garden. The plant is a herbaceous perennial, and increases by divi- 

 sion, or by cuttings of the young shoots, taken off close to the old 

 wood, and struck in heat they root freely. It is a native of Mexico, 

 also of New Spain, growing in dry elevated situations. It thrives 

 abundantly with ine in the open border during summer. I plant 

 it out at the end of April, in a bed of rich leaf mould and loam. It 



