Plate 447. 



SALVIA BRUANTI SPLENDENS. 



Since the plate of this pretty Salvia was engraved, it has been decided, we believe, to 

 be a form of S. splendens, and it will henceforth be known as S. splendens Bruanti. It 

 is said to have been raised in the south of France ; it got into the hands of Mr. Henry 

 Cannell, of the Swanley Nursery, Kent, by whom it was flowered and exhibited at One of 

 the meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society, and awarded a First-class Certificate of 

 Merit. Mr. Cannell describes it as much dwarfer in growth, and the flowers considerably 

 brighter in colour than the species, while the blossoms are produced in greater abundance. 



This fine Salvia is alike suited for pot-culture or for planting in beds ; and its beauty 

 is enhanced by reason of the elegant foliage, which is of a pleasing fern-like colour. It, 

 with some other new forms shortly to be figured, makes an excellent autumn-flowering 

 plant, being especially attractive at the dead season of the year. 



Plate 448. 

 DAHLIA WALTER K. WILLIAMS. 



It was in the seed-bed at the Castle Street Nursery, Salisbury, at the end of 1879, that 

 we first saw this fine Dahlia in flower. In the yearling state it was full of promise, and 

 when propagated and tried in 1880, it fully answered the high expectations formed of it. It 

 is in our opinion the brightest scarlet-coloured Dahlia in cultivation, and it is very^iifficult 

 indeed to reproduce on paper the rich clear bright scarlet, that is so conspicuous in the 

 flowers. In regard to substance, depth, outline, form of petal and centre, it is all that 

 can be desired ; as an exhibition flower it will undoubtedly take high rank. The flowers 

 are of large size ; it is a variety that requires little or no thinning ; it is of good habit, 

 and blooms profusely. 



"We are indebted to Messrs. Keynes and Co. for the opportunity of flowering this fine 

 variety, and it will be distributed by this well-known Salisbury firm in May next. 



