224 SALVIA 



SALVIA continued. 



S. Hom'inum Clary continued. 



1596. There is a good garden form of this 

 called Blue Beard. 



Sow the seeds of S. carduacea and S. 

 Hominum % in. deep outdoors where they are to 

 grow in April, and thin to 8 ins. apart. Ordinary 

 garden soil. 



The others should be sown in January or 

 February in heat, potted up singly and gradually 

 hardened off, to be planted out in rich soil in June. 



SAND VERBENA. See ABRONIA umbellata. 



SANVITA'LIA (named after the Sanvitali family of 

 Parma). Nat. Ord. Composite. 



S, procum'bens is a Mexican trailing annual, useful 

 for rockeries and edgings, producing numerous 

 small bright yellow flowers with a purply- 

 brown centre. 



There is also a double form known as 

 S. p. florae ple'no, that is all yellow and far 

 more showy than the single variety. It 

 flowers from July till autumn. 



Sow in autumn for spring flowering outdoors 

 A in- deep; or in spring in April, thinning the 

 seedlings to 3 ins. apart. 



SAPONA'RIA Soapwort (from M.L. sapo, soap, in 

 allusion to the juice which makes a lather when 

 mixed with water). Nat. Ord. Caryophyllacece. 



