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hybrida are iron-brown, and yellow-veined with brown ; 
S. sinuata, flowers a dark-blood color, veined or striped ; 
S. picta has beautiful striped flowers, all grow from one 
and ahalf to two feet high. They succeed finely whea 
started in a hot-bed, flowering profusely from August to 
October. The best soil for their cultivation is a mixture 
of loam and sand, enriched with rotted horse-manure and 
alittle leaf-mould. In heavy soil it will not succeed so well. 
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SALVIA,—Sace. 
[From salveo, to save, on account of the healing quality of the plants.1 
The common Sage (Salvia officinalis), is well known 
as a garden medicinal plant. It was formerly in great 
repute in medicine. In cookery it is used for sauces, stuf- 
fings, etc. 
This genus is very large, and consists of herbs and un- 
der-shrubs, the leaves of which have generally a roughish 
appearance, the smell aromatic, and the flowers commonly 
in spikes, two or three together from a bract or leaf. 
They are all of easy culture, and some of them are orna- 
mental green-house plants or border-flowers. 
S4lvia spléndens.—A Mexican plant of extraordinary 
beauty for the green-house or border, but tender, and will 
not bear the frost. It is easily raised from cuttings, which, 
when well established in pots and, turned out into the 
garden in June, will soon become large plants and pro- 
duce a profusion of large scarlet flowers in spikes, whic 
continue to give brilliancy to the garden until cut down 
by the frost. The plants become quite bushy, often three 
or four feet high. 
§. fiilgens.—This is also tender, but may be used as a 
border-flower, when treated like S. splendens. It is not 
so free a flowerer. The flowers are scarlet-crimson, some- 
