fi. do«(r|ell & ffloAl (jfuiele. 
AL VIAS. 
uu time ot the year do gardeuers find it more difficult to keep up a display of 
1^^ flowers than about the commencement of October, but if the following Salvias were once seen 
■ * persons wore determined to grow them, there would be no more scarcity of either the most 
intense blue, scarlet, purple, rose, striped, and several other intermediate colours, than there is of 
raving in ^oyember the conservatory fuU of Chrysanthemums, and, in fact, not nearly so much 
trouble, lor Salvias are much easier iiropagated and ‘Town. 
SALVIA Sl'LEMDliNS llKUANl'l. 
SALVIA BETIIELI. 
' GREENHOUSE 
]. SPLENDENS BEUANTI— Much dwarfer 
and flowers much brighter than the old variety, i 
and produced in gieater abundance ; in the south ! 
of France and Italy it is highly valued. 'We saw 
several beautiful beds of it last summer, and 
what enhances its value and beauty is its elegant 
foliage of a pleasing Ferii-like colour. Is. and 
Us. each 
VARIETIES. 
2. PITCHERl — A very beautiful herbaceous 
Salvia, with branching stems, 2 to 3 feet in height. 
Certainly one of the most desirable plants in 
cultivation, for its colour is of a most beautiful 
azure-blue, producing a ijuantity of flowers all the 
autumn. Is. and 2s. each 
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