SALVIA, OR 

 BOLIVIAN SAGE. 



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aTIIIN tlic last lialf-a.izeu 

 J cars several new speeic^s 

 and varieties of salvia have 

 l)een introduced (o our gar- 

 dens, very mucli to the 

 advantage of the winter 

 Colouring of tlie green- 

 house and conservator)'. 

 Our old friend Salria 

 "spleiiilints is not eclipsed 

 or superseded l)y any of 

 the new-comers, for that 

 and iS'. pdii'iix (llgured in 

 Scries T., p. f.!!) are still 

 the two jjcst ]ilanls nf the 

 rage family Inr the flciwer 

 garden. When grown from 

 1 stiuck cuttings and potted on 

 -nre slroug plants, the scarlet- 

 iwciiug sage is a loud summer beauty. 

 The licst ]ilace for a clump is in the 

 sunniest part of the garden, the soil to be somewhat poor 

 and stony, and if containing some proportion of old plaster 

 or other calcareous rubbish, all the better. For a few isolated 



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