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SALVIA PRUNELLOIDES. 
when a number of flower-stems (rarely more than eight or ten inches long) are ! 
borne in close proximity, they produce an effect decidedly ornamental. 
For some time, it was a matter of doubt whether it would endure the severity ; 
of our climate without protection during winter. We are, however, enabled to 
state its perfect hardiness, plants having stood without the slightest protection for 
three successive winters, in the Nursery of Mr. Bunney, at Stratford. It ought to 
be planted in a well-drained and airy situation ; and, unless the soil is tolerably 
nutritive, the flowers will be much inferior in size. A hardy plant, with bright- 
blue flowers, to contrast with Verbenas, &c., in the parterre, must be useful. 
We believe the merit of raising and flowering the first plants in this country, 
is due to Mr. Moyes, of Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol, who received roots from 
Mexico. Humboldt and Bonpland met with it on the volcanic mountain of 
Jorullo, where it grows in rocky situations : it has also been found in New Spain, 
by Mocino and Lesse, and in various parts of Mexico, by different individuals. 
Our figure was prepared from a specimen which bloomed in August, 1843, in 
the Nursery of Mr. Knight, at Chelsea. 
