SALPIGLOSSIS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



SALVIA. 



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although it is much prettier grouped or 

 massed beside the water, and it is only 

 then that one gets its extreme grace. 

 This Willow is grafted on the common 

 Sallow a usually coarse-growing Willow 

 of which the shoots spring from below the 

 graft. If let alone for a year or two they 

 would soon make an end of the Purple 

 Willow, but by continually removing 

 them one may keep the tree alive. 



S. ROSMARINIFOLIA (Greybush W.). 

 A graceful bushy Willow of a nice grey 

 colour, especially for groups near water or 

 in moist ground ; hardy and of easy 

 culture. Europe. 



S. VIMINALIS (Osier). A distinct and 

 native Willow, frequent in wet places in 

 woods and Osier beds, rarely planted in 

 gardens, the leaves and branches are very 

 fine in form. It is the Willow most used 

 for basket-making. 



S. VITELLINA (Golden W.). Some- 

 times classed with the White Willow by 

 botanists, but from a planter's point of 

 view it is a distinct tree, never so large as 

 the White Willow, but effective in the 

 colour of its yellow branches and twigs 

 in the winter sun. While old trees of this 

 often become good in form and occasion- 

 ally pendulous, there is of recent years a 

 distinctly pendulous variety, 5. pendula, 

 which is very graceful and precious 

 indeed, and quite hardy, which should 

 never be grafted. Some of the red twigged 

 Willows, such as that called the Cardinal 

 Willow, belong to 5. vitellina. The twigs 

 are used to a great extent for packing in 

 nurseries and tying fruit trees in gardens. 



SALPIGLOSSIS. S. sinuata is a 

 beautiful plant of the Solatium family, 

 and one of the finest of half-hardy 

 annuals ; it is slender, and has an 

 erect stem, i to 2 feet high, bearing 

 large funnel-shaped blossoms that have 

 dark veins on a ground which varies 

 from white to crimson, yellow, orange, 

 or purple, and intermediate shades. 

 As the colour of the blossoms is so 

 variable, the plant is known as 5. 

 variables, and its varieties have Latin 

 names according to their tints. S. 

 sinuata thrives in light, rich, sandy 

 loam, and should be treated as a half- 

 hardy annual. Chili. 



SALVIA (Sage). For the autumn 

 garden, few plants are more useful 

 than the Sages, with their showy spikes 

 of flowers. They are easily raised 

 from seed or cuttings, they grow in 

 almost any soil, and give good colour 

 during several months. They are 

 found in all parts of the world, the 

 tender shrubby kinds in the mountains 

 of tropical America, and the hardier 

 perennial sorts in Europe and Asia. 



S. AZUREA. A perennial from North 

 America, and one of the finest in its 

 flowers, borne as dense spikes of a beautiful 

 pale blue, during September and October. 

 Its habit is vigorous, with stems long and 

 straight, and it flowers rather too late to 

 be always good with us. There are several 

 forms of this plant, drawn from different 

 parts of its area, including grandiflora 

 (syn., S. Pitcheri), with down - covered 

 leaves and stems and denser spikes, and 

 angustifolia, with narrow leaves and longer 

 spikes of flower. Though often flowered 

 under glass, these plants thrive in the open 

 border in mild districts, and are very 

 useful for cutting. 



Salpiglossis 



S. COCCINEA. This graceful plant covers 

 a wide area in America, and though small 

 the flowers are bright and well displayed. 

 It is excellent for borders, and a true 

 perennial, though often treated as an 

 annual. The habit and leaves are neat, 

 with bright scarlet flowers in airy spikes 

 of 12 to 1 8 inches, prettily set on dark 

 hairy stems, lasting for many weeks and 

 good for cutting. 



S. GRAHAMI. This good old kind forms 

 a handsome bush, bearing small bright 

 crimson flowers in light heads during 

 summer. The stems being woody, they 

 last well when cut, and are pretty in 

 vases. It is hardy in the milder parts of 

 Britain, but needs a good place against 

 a wall if it is to flower well. There are 

 varieties with white flowers, and shades 

 inclining to scarlet and purple. 



S. GREGGII (Rosemary-scented Sage). 

 One of the hardiest of the shrubby Salvias, 

 coming from the mountains of Texas. It 

 grows about 3 feet high, with small 

 bluntly-rounded leaves and spikes of 

 crimson and purple flowers 3 to 6 inches 

 long at the end of drooping branchlets. 

 The plant is hardy in light soils with root 



