LIST OF FLOWERS 



to 2 feet high, and thrives in light rich loam. For early flowering 

 seed should be sown in moderate heat at the beginning of March, 

 when the plants will be ready for putting out in May; but it may also 

 be sown in the open in Aprfi, in the place where intended to bloom, 

 care being taken to thin out rigorously. 



SALVIA (Sage). This family includes many beautiful garden 

 plants, both perennial and annual, hardy and half-hardy. S. 

 splendens, with its clear-green foliage and brilliant scarlet flowers, 

 is one of the most useful and showy of the family, and has diverged 

 into many valuable strains. S. patens, with its flowers of intense 

 blue, is another lovely variety, while S. Roemeriana, with flowers of 

 deep crimson, is of compact dwarf growth well suited for border 

 edgings. All these may be satisfactorily treated as half-hardy 

 annuals. There are many other varieties well worth growing, such 

 as S. azurea, a perennial which wfll thrive in the open in mild districts, 

 with fine spikes of pale blue flowers; and S. cacalicefoUa, also per- 

 ennial in warm situations, with grey-green downy foliage and erect 

 stems bearing flowers of deep blue. 



SANGUINARIA-CANADENSIS. A hardy and pretty plant 

 well suited for the Wild Garden, where in moist soil it will readily 

 naturalize itself, pushing forth in all directions stout creeping roots, 

 from which appear glaucous leaves and stems of large white 

 flowers with yellow stamens — a beautiful sight in spring. It is 

 useful, also, for the margins of copses, or where the drip from trees 

 prevents other vegetation. 



SANVITALIA. A hardy annual thriving in any ordinary soil 

 and easfly raised from seed by sowing in autumn for spring flowering 

 or in April for summer bloom. The double-flowered S. procumbens, 

 with traihng stems and bright yellow flowers, is the best variety. 



SAPONARIA. A hardy perennial and annual of dwarf creeping 

 habit, and useful in the Rock Garden or as border edgings. 5. 

 calabrica (annual) is one of the prettiest varieties, growing about 

 6 inches high with slender stems of small blossoms, either pink or 

 white; while S. ocymoides splendens (perennial) is particularly 

 valuable for the Rock Garden, making an excellent drooping plant 

 for falling over the face of the rocks and becoming a mass of rose- 

 coloured bloom. 



SAXIFRAGA. A large family which includes many species 

 and varieties and a host of beautiful Alpine plants, most of which are 

 quite easy to grow. Of the species most suited for the Rock Garden 



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