232 CATALOGUE OP GREENHOUSE PLANTS* 



Salvia. Mexican Sage. A free-blooming plant, produ- 

 cing in the different species, scarlet and blue flowers in 

 spiked whorls; cuttings of which, if taken from stock plants 

 in the greenhouse, early in Spring,and planted in good gar- 

 den soil, will embellish the borders three or four months of 

 tiie Summer. 



Scmpervirum arboreum. Treehouse leek. A succulent 

 plant, similar to the common house-leek, on a dwarfish 

 stem ; by some admired as an evergreen. 



Stapelia. A genus of dwarf succulent plants, producing 

 beautiful purple, striped, freckled and star-like flowers, 

 within six inches of the surface ; in its varieties from May to 

 November. 



Stevia 1 serrata. Vanilla-scented Stevia. This plant, 

 although usually cultivated as an annual, is worthy of 

 greenhouse culture, from its affording fragrant and orna- 

 mental materials for bouquets the whole Winter. 



Sinlitzia rcgina. Queen's strelitz. A beautiful dwarf 

 plant, producing from a stalk from one to two feet long, 

 several flowers of a bright yellow, contrasted with blue ; from 

 May to September. 



Tecoma capensis. A perennial plant, producing 

 orange- coloured trumpet flowers in clusters; very similar to 

 the Bigonia tribe, towards the end of Summer. 



Tkea. Tea. Of this celebrated Chinese plant, which 

 supplies a great proportion of the human family with their 

 domestic beverage, there are two varieties. Thea virdis 

 and Thea bokea. The plants when cultivated in a greenhouse, 

 are by no means of rapid growth, nor are the flowers which 

 are white, of any great beauty. 



Tussilago fragrance. A half-hardy herbaceous Peren- 

 nial plant, by some much esteemed for its heliotrope 

 scented blossoms, which spring up in clusters from De- 

 cember to March. 



Verbe?ii tripliylla, named in some catalogues, Aloysa 

 ritriodora* A deciduous shrub, generally admired for the 

 fragrance of its leaves, which is its chief recommendation, 

 the blossoms which are white, being small. 



Verbena. Splendid Verbena. A tribe of plants increas- 



