SAL 



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SAL 



included in this recommendation; for 

 some of the best practical gardeners 

 recommend it for the stock, hyacinth, 

 amaryllis, ixia, anemone, colchicum, 

 narcissus, ranunculus, &c. ; and in the 

 fruit-garden it has been found beneficial 

 to almost every one of its tenants, 

 especially the cherry and apple. On 

 lawns and walks it helps to drive away 

 worms, and to destroy moss. 



Ammonia. The salts of ammonia 

 are highly stimulating, and afford, by 

 their ready decomposition, abundant 

 food to plants. The dungs of animals 

 are fertilizing exactly in proportion to 

 the amount of ammonia in them. The 

 only care required is not to apply them 

 too abundantly. Half-an-ounce to each 

 gallon of water, given at the most twice 

 a week, is a good recipe for all the 

 ammoniacal salts. The ammoniacal 

 gas liquor, at the rate of one pint to two 

 gallons of water, is highly beneficial to 

 all plants grown for their leaves. 



Chalk (Carbonate of Lime) may be 

 applied in large quantities, twenty or 

 thirty tons per acre, to render a light 

 siliceous soil more retentive, or a heavy 

 soil more open. Its basis, lime, enters 

 into the composition of most plants in 

 some state of combination. If the 

 chalk is to be burnt into lime before it 

 is applied, care should be taken that it 

 does not contain, like some of the 

 Yorkshire chalks, a large proportion of 

 carbonate of magnesia. Magnesia re- 

 mains long in a caustic state, and has 

 been found injurious to the plants to 

 which it has been applied." 



Chloride of Lime gradually gives out 

 a portion of its chlorine, and is con- 

 verted into muriate of lime, a salt ab- 

 sorbing moisture from the air, which 

 can hardly exist in any soil, however 

 light, without keeping it moist ; and its 

 nauseous odour may be found to keep 

 off the attacks of the fly, and other 

 vermin. A solution containing one 

 ounce in five gallons of water, is said to 

 destroy the aphis and the caterpillar, 

 if poured over the trees they infest. 



Gas Lime is a hydro-sulphuret of 

 lime, with a little ammonia. It is an 

 excellent manure, especially to cab- 

 bages, turnips, cauliflowers, and brocoli, 

 dug in at the time of planting or sow- 



ing. If sown over the surface at the 

 time of inserting the crop, at the rate 

 of twenty bushels per acre, it will effectu- 

 ally drive away the turnip-fly, slug, &c. 



Gypsum, or Plaster of Paris, is sul- 

 phate of lime. It has been found very 

 useful as a top-dressing to lawns, and 

 dug in for turnips and potatoes. Three 

 hundred weight per acre is abundance. 



Nitrates of Potash (Saltpetre), and 

 of 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 bene- 

 cial 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 uniform and 

 eminent in promoting their luxuriance. 



They have also been given in solu- 

 tion with great benefit to chrysanthe- 

 mums, 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 TBEE. Halimode'ndron. 



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

 medicinal qualities. Nat. ord., Lipworis 

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

 nofjynia.} 



Annuals and biennials, seeds in the open 

 border; 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 spe- 

 cies 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-/eat>ed). 1. Blue. 

 July. W. Indies. 1813. Annual. 



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



Cuba. 1823. 



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



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