SAL 



SAL 



planted in a decpish trench, pretty close toge- 

 ther, w hich soon grow, and t'oriii a sort of fence 

 immediately. 



When for twigs for garden uses, a moist si- 

 tuation should be chosen, and a tjuautlty of the 

 most pliant kind of osier sets, or cuttings of 

 the young shoots, half a yard or two feet long, 

 should he provided and planted in rows, two 

 parts of three into the ground. They grow 

 freelv, and furnish plenty of twigs every year, 

 managing them as those in the osier planta- 

 tions. 



The after- culture in all these cases is princi- 

 pally the keeping down large weeds the first and 

 serond years after planting, but which is more 

 particularlv necessary iu the plantations of young 

 low cuttings, tdl they are a little advanced in 

 their growth. 



Wlien intended for nursery collections, all 

 the different sorts should be kept, being raised 

 from young cuttings of a year or two old, in 

 half-yard or two feet lengths, and planted in 

 rows,' two or three feet asunder, to grow till 

 wanted for use. 



Some of these sorts of willows may be used 

 with good effect, as ornamental trees on the sides 

 of ponds or other places, especially white, yel- 

 low, purple, sweet, almond-leaved, and weeping 

 kinds, being disposed thinly in large out-planta- 

 tions; but the Babylonian or Weeping Willow, 

 for its curious pendulous growth, demands atten- 

 tion in a particular manner, and should be dis- 

 posed singly, or detached, both by the side of 

 water, and in spacious openings of grass ground, 

 also near grottoes, cascades, caves, ruins, &c. 



SALLAD HERBS, the different sorts of es- 

 culent plants from which herbs for sallads are 

 collected. These by different sowings, plantings, 

 &c. are obtained at all times of the year; but 

 the most generally esteemed sorts may be com- 

 prised under the heads of Large, Small, and Oc- 

 casional Sallad Herbs. 



The first consist chiefly of the different sorts 

 of lettuces ; the different sorts of endive, and all 

 the varieties of celery, vthich sorts are in the best 

 perfection for use when arrived at the full 

 growth ; any of which may be eaten as a sallad 

 alone,ora!l mixedt()gether,or witha properquan- 

 tity of small salladiug, especially in winter and 

 spring; as the small salladmgbeingofa warm na- 

 ture renders the sallad more grateful and whole- 

 some. Lettuces are generally esteemed most in 

 summer, when full grown and firmly cabbaged, 

 but may be used at all seasons. The endive and 

 celery are excellent for autumn and a inter sal- 

 lads, being in full perfection from September to 

 ihe end of November, when they are full grown 

 and finely blanched, and often continuing in to- 



lerable perfection all winter and spring. See 

 Lactuca, CiCHouiuM, and Apium. 



The second sorts are cresses, mustard, radish, 

 rape, and some others; in all of which herbs, the 

 young leaves are the useful parts for the purpose 

 of sallad, and are always in the best perfection 

 when quite young, as a few days, or a week old 

 at most, while in their first leaves; cutting them 

 up, stalks and top together, close to the ground, 

 as when used thus quite voung they eat exceed- 

 ing tender, with an agreeably warm relish, but be- 

 come too hot by age. See Small Sallad Hkrbs. 



The last sorts are principally corn sallad, or 

 lamb's lettuce — purslane — spear-mint — water- 

 cress — borage and borage-flowers — nasturtium- 

 flowers and the young leaves — chervil — burnct, 

 and sometimes red-cabbage — radishes — red beet- 

 root — finochia, or Azorian fennel — sorrel — tarra- 

 gon young onions eives and sometimes 



horbc-radish, incorporated with other herbs; 

 most of which sorts are occasionally used in 

 composition with other sallad herbs, and some 

 alone as a sallad, such as red-cabbage, water- 

 cress, young borage, &c. See their respective 

 genera. 



SALLOW. See Salix. 



SALSOLA, a genus containing a plant of the 

 shrubby evergreen kind. 



It belongs Ito the class and order Pentandria 

 Digijnia, &i\A ranks in the natural order of Holo- 

 racfcc. 



The characlers are : that the calyx is a five- 

 parted perianth : segments ovate, concave, per- 

 manent : there is no corolla, unless the calyx be 

 called so: the stamina have five very short fila- 

 ments inserted into the segments of the calyx : 

 the pistillum is a globular germ : style three- 

 parted or two-parted, short: stigmas recurved: the 

 pericarpium is an ovate capsule, wrapped in the 

 calvx, one-celled : the seeds single, very large, 

 spiral. 



The species cultivated is S. fruticosa, 

 Shrubby Saltwort, or Stone-Crop Tree. 



It has the stem about two feet high or more, 

 woodv, erect, round, very much branched ; the 

 branches also erect, and thickly clothed with 

 alternate, sessile, semi-cylindrical, bluntish, 

 fleshy, even, almost upright, rather glaucous 

 leaves : the flowers inconspicuous, axillary, 

 sessile, solitary, green; with three small, con- 

 cave, scariose bractes. The leaves have an her- 

 baceous flavour, with a slight degree of salt and 

 some acrimony. It forms an elegant evergreen 

 shrub, flowering in July and August. It is a na- 

 tive of France, &c. 



Culture. — This plant may be increased by 

 lasers or cuttings, though with difficulty in the 

 latter method. 



