SAL 



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SAL 



Soda (Cubic Petre), have been found! 

 beneficial to carrots, cabbages, and lawns. 

 One pound to a square rod of ground is 

 a sufficient quantity. Both these nitrates 

 have been found beneficial to potatoes in 

 Scotland. Mr. Murray says, that from 

 1810 down to the present time he has 

 been in the habit of watering pinks and 

 carnations with solutions of these two 

 nitrates, and the benefit has been uni- 

 form and eminent in promoting their 

 luxuriance. 



They have also been given in solution 

 with great benefit to chrysanthemums, 

 lettuces, celery, fuchsias, and dahlias: 

 one pound to twelve gallons of water. 

 Nitrate of soda destroys slugs. 



Phosphate of Lime. See BONES. 



Super-Phosphate of Lime. Chrysan- 

 themums were much increased in vigour 

 when watered with a solution of this salt 

 in the Chiswick Garden, at the end of 

 July. It is thought, if the application 

 had been made earlier, the benefit would 

 have been still more marked. 



SALT-TREE. Halimode'ndron. 



SA'LVIA. Sage. (From salvo, to save ; 

 medicinal qualities. Nat. ord., Lipworts 

 [Lamiacese]. Linn., 2-Diandria \-Mo- 

 nogynia.) 



Annuals and biennials, seeds in the open bor- 

 der; herbaceous perennials, by division at the 

 roots in spring ; shrubs, by cuttings inserted 

 firmly in the ground in autumn or spring, like the 

 common Sage ; greenhouse and stove species, by 

 cuttings of the young shoots at all seasons except 

 winter, only the stove kinds like a little heat ; rich, 

 light, good soil. See CLARY and SAGE. 



STOVE ANNUALS. 



S, lanceola'ta (spear-head-/eawed). 1. Blue. July. 

 W. Ind. 1813. 



micra'ntha (small-flowered). 1. Blue. May. 



Cuba. 1823. 



rhombifo'lia (diamond-leaved). Blue. Peru. 



1827. 



tene'lla (slender). Blue. June. Jamaica. 1821. 



HARDY BIENNIALS AND ANNUALS. 

 S. mhio'pis (Ethiopian). 3. White. May. Austria. 

 1570. 



Byzanti'na (Turkey). 1. Blue. July. Turkey. 



1825. 



ceratophy'lla (buckhorn -leaved). 2. Yellow. 



July. Persia. 1699. 



ceratophylloi'des (buckhorn -leaved-like). 



Yellow. July. Egypt. 1771. 



ero'sa (bitten-leaved). 1. Blue. July. Europe, 



1817. Annual. 



folio'sa (leafy), ij. Blue. All seasons. Mexico. 



1827. Greenhouse biennial. 



hirsu'ta (hairy). 1. Blue. May. 1801. Annual. 



Hispa'nica (Spanish), li. Blue. July. Spain 



1739. Annual. 



hormi'num (horminum). 1^. Purple. June. 



South Europe. 1696. Annual. 



ru'bra (ted-topped). l. Red. July. South 



Europe. 1596. 



S. hormi'num viola'cea (purple-topped'). 1$. 

 Purple. June. South Europe. 1596. 



nepetifo'lia (cat-mint-leaved). 1. Blue. July. 



Europe. 1823. Annual. 



Nilo'tica (Nile). 1. Blue. July. Egypt. 1780. 



phlomoi'des (phlomis-like). 2. Blue. May. 



Spain. 1805. 



plnna'ta (Icafleted). 1. Purple. July. Levant. 



1731. 



scla'rea (common. Clary). 4. White, purple. 



August. South Europe. 1562. 



(thorny -calyxed). 1. White. June. 

 Egypt. 1789- 



Tingita'na (Tangier). 3. White. July. Barbary, 



1796. 



vi'ridis (green-topped). l. Blue. July. Italy. 



1759. Annual. 



GREENHOUSE AND STOVE EVERGREENS. 

 S. Africa'na (African). 2. Violet. May. Cape of 

 Good Hope. 1734. 



agglutina'ta (clammy). Scarlet. June. New 



Spain. 1827. 



amethy'stina (amethyst-coloured). 2. Blue. 



August. Columbia. 1817- Stove. 



au'rea (golden). 3. Blue. July. Cape of Good 



Hope. 1731. 



auri'ta (enred-leaved). 2. Lilac, yellow. May. 



Cape of Good Hope. 1795. 



Canariefnsis (Canary). 4. Purple. July. Cana- 



ries. 1697. 



chamadryoi'des (germander-like). l. Blue, 



July. Mexico. 1/95. 



confertiflo'ra (crowded-flowered). 3. Red. 



August. Rio Janeiro. 1838. Stove. 



Cre'tica (Cretan). . Violet. June. Crete. 1760. 



denta'ta (tooth-leaved). . White. December. 



Cape of Good Hope. 1774. 



dolichosta'chya (long-spiked). 6. Scarlet. Au- 



gust. Mexico. 1820. 



e'legans (elegant). 4. Cream. July. Mexico. 



1820. 



formo'sa (beautiful). 4. Scarlet. June. Peru. 



1783. 



fu'lgens( brilliant). 5. Scarlet. July. Mexico. 

 18-29. 



Gesnerogflo'ra (Gesnera-flowered). 3. Scarlet. 



March. 1846. Stove. 



involncra't'i (involucred). 2. Red. August. 



Mexico. 1824 Stove. 



lamiifo'lia (lamium-leaved). 2. Blue. July. 



S. Amer. 1821. 



occidentals (western). l. White. July. Ja- 



maica. 1824. Stove. 



odora'ta (sweet-scented). 3. White. July. 



Bagdad. 1804. 



panicula'ta (panicled). 6. Violet. July. Cape 



of Good Hope. 1758. 



pu'tens (spreading). 10. Blue. September. 



Mexico. 1838. 



rosafo'lia (rose-leaved). Purple. July. Levant. 



1827. 



runcina'ta (runcinate-teaed). 2. Blue. July. 



Cape of Good Hope. 1774. 



sca'bra (scaly). 2. Blue. June. Cape of Good 



Hope. 1774. 



strictiflo'ra (erect-flowered). 3. Brown, red. 



December. Peru. 1831. Stove. 



GREENHOUSE HERBACEOUS. 

 S. amari'ssima (bitterest). 2. Blue. August. 

 Mexico. 1803. 



angustifo'lia (narrow-leaved). 2. Blue. May, 



Mexico. 1816. 



ca'sia (grey). 2. Blue. July. S. Amer. 1813. 



cocci'nea (sc&r\et-flowered). 2. Scarlet. July, 



S. Amer. 1772. 



