PROPAGATION OF THE POLY'gALA SPECIOSA. 731 
ARTICLE VII. 
ON PLANTING THE SA'LVIA SPLE'NDENS IN THE OPEN BORDER, 
OR ON LAWNS.— By Mr. G. Bedell. 
On reading in your publication, an article on the Cultivation of the 
Salvia splendens, I regi'etted that your correspondent had not gone 
a little farther on the subject, by noticing the beautiful effect produ- 
ced by training it with one stem only. The method of producing 
a tall stem with a fine head, ah-eady appears in your Magazine in 
the directions for the Cultivation of the Fuschia, and therefore needs 
no further notice here, than that the same method must be observed. 
The cuttings intended for standards should be struck in the summer 
months, and kept growing during the winter, and as soon as a clean 
stem of about five or six feet in height is obtained, (which may be, 
probably by the end of May or middle of June,) they may be planted 
out. A Lawn is, in my opinion, the situation in which they appear 
to the greatest advantage, a portion of the turf should be taken up 
and replaced as soon as the Salvia is planted. — They may remain in 
the ground till the end of October should the weather prove mild, 
when they must be re-potted and wintered in the green-house, or 
any other place secure from frost until the next season. 
Most of the Salvias grow and flower much stronger when planted 
in the open ground, than in the green-house, and the usual Spring 
struck Cuttings, planted in the border and shrubbery in May, will 
make a fine appearance in the autumn ; these may be left in the 
ground, as, if the weather proves mild, they will continue to bloom 
through the whole of December. 
G. Bedell. 
Grange Road, Bermondsey, July I4th, 1832. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
ON THE PROPAGATION OF THE POLY'GALA SPECIO'SA, AND 
SALVIA SPLENDENS.— Bt Mr. T, Heary. 
On perusing the seventh Number of your Register, (to which I am 
a subscriber,) I find in your Extracts from Mr. Mc. Intosh's Flora 
and Pomona, a hint on the propagation of the Polygala speciosa, to 
which I beg to add a mode I invariably found successful. I bind 
down about four inches of the top of the young shoots, and leave 
