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GUIDE TO THE CONSERVATORY. 



When the flowering season is over, place the plant 

 in the coldest part of the flower-house, give but 

 little water until March, then proceed as before. 



SALVIA SPLENDENS. 

 Class, Diandria. Order, Monogynia. 



Labiate. 



Native of Mexico, 1822 — Propagation, cuttings. 



This fine scarlet sage is a great acquisition to the 

 conservatory at this season of the year. 



In January, place the old stools in the flower- 

 house to make fresh shoots for cuttings ; by Fe- 

 bruary these will be sufficiently strong for taking off 

 from the plant ; select for the purpose the strongest 

 of them, and plant them several in each pot. By 

 March they will be ready for potting off into No. 

 60, one in each pot, shift as they fill with roots into 

 the next size until they are in No. 8 size, in which 

 let them remain for blooming. When this pot is 

 filled with roots, give the plant a little dung water 

 once a week. Should it be desirable to bloom the 

 plants in less pots, give dung water as soon as the 

 pots in which they are to flower are full of roots. 



Soil.— One part loam, one vegetable soil, one 

 dung, with about one sixth part rough sand. 



By following the above directions, fine tall plants 

 covered with blossoms will be obtained, but from 

 the striking of the cuttings to the blooming of the 

 plants, they must be in the flower-house, and when 



