SAL 



SAL 



branches and branchlets opposite, spreading, being planted out at once where they are to 

 tbiir-corneicd, naked at ihe base, rufous: shoots remain. 



The plants raised from young slips generally 

 form tl.e strongest and most bushy jilants. 



In raising these plants from seed, which is 

 but seldom practised, it should he sown in April, 



four-grooved", green at the top, clammy: the 

 leaves spreading, acute (in the garden hluhtish), 

 crenate-serrate, somewhat wrinkled, veined, 

 w^ith the midrib and veins prominent only be- 

 neath, subcoriaceous, greeitish, but paler on the 



in a bed of lisrlit rich earth, raking it in : the 



back : petiole scarcely half as long as the leaf, plants soon come up; and when about two or 



round on one sule, grooved on the other . 

 flowers very many, from the axils of the shoots, 

 in a sort of whorl, in the garden commonly five 

 together, the two lower of which are later: they 

 are on short, spreading, one-flowered peduncles, 

 jointed at the top. It is a native of Peru, 

 flowering most part of the summer. 



CkI'iitc. — These plants are in most of the 

 sons raised without nmch difficulty. 



Culture in the Sage Kind. — This in all the 



three inches high, should be pricked out, the 

 strongest in nursery rows, half a foot asunder, 

 to gam strength till the autumn or spring fol- 

 lowing, and then planted out witli balls where 

 they are to stand. 



In the after-culture of this species and va-^ 

 rielies, all that is requisite is the keeping them 

 clean from weeds in summer, cutting down the 

 decayed flower-stalks in autumn, and slightly 

 digj^mg between the rows in the same season, to 



varieties mav be eflect'-d by slips or cuttings of keep them clean and decent during the winter, 

 the young shoots from the sides of the branches, &c. But where this digging is not done in the 

 sometimes also by bottom rooted off-sets and autnmn it should not be omiited in the spring. 



likewise by seed. Slips both of the former and 

 same year's growth may be used. 



Those of the first sort may be employed in 

 April, but the latter not till May, or later: these, 

 however, most readily strike root, and assume 

 a free growth. 



In either case, moist weather should be 

 chosen ; and having recourse to some good 



riie leaves of the Sage should be gathered 

 with care and attention, not to cut the tops loo 

 close, to render the plants naked and stubby,, 

 especially when late in autumn and winter ; ii> 

 which they would be more liable to suffer from 

 severe frost than when the head is preserved 

 somewhat full and regular: besides, in this state 

 the plants continue longer in a prosperous free 



bushy plants, a proper quantity of the outward growth, 

 robust side shoots, about five, six, or seven When, in any old plantation, naked, stubby, 

 iitehes lono-, should be slipped oft', trimming off or decayed parts occur, they should be cut out, 

 all the low'er leaves, then planted out in some and any straggling irregular growths reduced to 

 shady border, with a dibble, in rows half a foot order by occasional pruning in spring or sum- 

 asunder, putting them down almost to their tops, raer, by which the plants will more readily emit 

 giving water dfrectly, to settle the earth close, fresh shoots and form full heads, 

 as well as to promote an early emission of root- Fresh plantations of Sage should be formed as 

 fibres, and repeating the waterings occasionally 

 in dry weather : the slips in general soon einit 

 fibres, and shoot freely at top : when they have 

 a tendency to spindle up with slender shoots, or 

 run up to flower, it is proper to top them short in plants 

 order to force out laterals below, to assume a "■' 

 bushy growth: they mostly fonn tolerably bushy 

 plants by the autumn, when, or in the spring 

 following, they may be removed, with balls of 

 earth about their roots, and planted where they 

 are to remain, either in four-feet beds, or in 

 continued rows, a foot and half asunder, if de- 

 signed as a close plantation for use : those de- 



pla 

 the old ones decline. 



In continuing them where the ground is much 

 impoverished, a little dry rotten dung should be 

 pointed in lightly, to give more vigour to the 



Culture in the Clary Kind. — ^These in the 

 herbaceous kinds are easily raised from seed, and 

 in the perennial sorts by parting the roots. 



The seed should be sown in March, in any 

 bed or border of common earth, raking it in y 

 and when the plants have got leaves of two or 

 three niches growth, they should be planted out 



in showery weather, in rows eighteen inches 



signed for the pleasure-ground should be dis- distant, and at the same distance in the lines: 

 posed in the borders, &c. so as to afford va- they soon strike root, arid grow large, furnishing 

 yjj,[y_ liirge leaves, fit for use in autumn, winter, and 



Where there are rooted off-sets, they may be the following spring, 

 slipped off separately with the fibres to them. The perennial sorts are raised from seed in- 

 cither as the iilants stand in the ground, or the the same manner, setting the young plants out in 

 bunches of plants taken up and divided into as the sununer in nursery-rows till autumn, wheij 

 many separate slips as are furnished with roots, they should be planted out into the borders, Sec, 



