

March 11, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



81 



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SALVIA PRIDE OF ZURICH. 



I should like to draw attention to a 

 beautiful, but as yet not widely known 

 summer-flowering bedding plant, says a 

 writer in the Horticultural Trade Jour- 

 nal (English). I refer to the new dwarf 

 summer-flowering salvia. Pride of Zurich, 

 or, as some have named it. Glory of 

 Zurich. In the first place, its height and 

 habit are ideal, and the freedom with 

 which it produces its vivid scarlet flowers 

 is remarkable. This salvia grows about 

 ten to twelve inches high, and about the 

 same distance through, and is so free that 

 I have seen plants carrying as many as 

 eighteen flower spikes at one time. The 

 foliage is of a pale bright green, and 

 smaller than that of Salvia splendens. 

 The color of the flowers is a rich, daz- 

 zling scarlet, quite as rich as those of 

 the autumn-flowering variety just men- 

 tioned, and borne in great profusion. 

 The plant maintains a healthy, clean, 

 free-flowering habit throughout the whole 

 season. After a season's trial it is very 

 gratifying to be enabled to say that it 

 does as well, and flowers quite as freely, 

 in the northern districts as in those of 

 the south. 



This plant possesses another good 

 ■ quality, namely, that of rapidly recover- 

 ing its beauty after heavy rains, and in 

 this respect equals, if not surpasses, the 

 best geranium. This salvia grows and 

 flowers freely in any ordinary garden 

 soil. I feel confident that a plant so 

 neat and graceful in habit, combined 

 with its freedom of bloom, is bound to 

 become popular when better known, and 

 I can safely recommend Salvia Pride of 

 Zurich as one of the best and most bril- 

 liant bedding plants ever introduced. 

 Like lobelia, the stock must be true, 

 .ind grown from cuttings. 



VISITORS AT KEW. 



The number of persons who visited the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England 

 during the year 1908 was 2,710,220. 

 These figures show a decrease of 252,494 

 visitors over the year 1907, when the 

 number of visitors was the largest yet 

 recorded. During the last ten years 

 (1898-19(17) lfi.428,084 persons have vis- 

 ited the gardens, giving an average of 

 1,642,808.- In 1908 the total number 

 on Sundays was 1.321,384 and on week- 

 days 1,388,836. The number of visitors 

 on Sundays is the largest on record, being 

 in excess of that for 1907 by 52,883 

 The maximum attendance on any ' one 

 day was 98,388 August 3. The small- 

 est number on any one dav was 68 

 .lanuaiy 21. The greatest number on a 

 Sunday was 70,904, July 26, and is a 

 record number for a Sunday. 



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