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good soil and rather dry situation, when the plants will flower 

 freely, from July until winter. [Bot. Reg., March.) 



LabidlecB. 



SA'LVIA 



r6;i\^ Beiitk. TJie regla sage. A green-house plant; growing four feet high; with scar- 

 let flowers; appearing from May to July; a native of Mexico; increased by cuttings. 

 Introduced in 1839. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 14. 



A fine addition to the now quite numerous family of salvias. 

 It is but a few years since the splendens was the only kind 

 known in our collections; they now number eight or ten spe- 

 cies. The present subject is a very ornamental plant, attain- 

 ing the height of from four to five feet, witJi half shrubby 

 erect stems, and rather small, roundish, obtuse, crenate leaves. 

 The flowers appear in terminal clusters of three to five, and 

 are of a brilliant scarlet. The only specimens that have flow- 

 ered were grown in the green-house of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety, where the plants bloomed freely, but not in so good 

 perfection as they will when the management of the plants is 

 understood. It will probably require similar treatment to the 

 S. splendens, fulgens, &c., and, like them, is a most desirable 

 plant. (Bot. Reg., March.) 



binary llid3.cess. 



ISME'NE 

 yiriscens Lindl Stalk Jioircrfd Ismene. A green-house bulb; growing a foot high; with 

 white flowers; appearing from June to August; increased by offsets; grown in loam, 

 peat, and sand. Bot Keg., 1841, t. 12. 



A beautiful species of the ismene, which, though less bril- 

 liant than the I. Amdncaes, is nevertheless a desirable plant. 

 The stem is a foot or more in length, and the flowers greenish 

 white, with an agreeable lemon-like fragrance. It should be 

 treated like the other species, that is, absolute rest in winter, 

 then planted either in pots or in the open border in April or 

 May, in a very light sandy soil, where it will flower freely. 

 Take up the bulbs in August, and keep them dry and cool 

 till spring. Increased by offsets. {Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



SPREKE'L/./3 

 glauca Lhidl. Glaucous jacoboean lily. A green-house bulb; growing a font high; with 

 pale crimson flowers; appearing in June; a native of Mexico; increased by offsets. 

 Introduced in 1839. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. IG. 



Similar to the old jacoboean lily, but differs in having "small- 

 er and rather paler flowers, and a very glaucous foliage." It 

 was found in Mexico, by M. Hartwig, and first flowered in 

 the garden of the London Horticultural Society in 1840. It 

 requires the same treatment as the Amaryllis formosissima, 

 now called by Mr. Herbert, Sprekelia. [Bot. Reg., March.) 



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