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ON VARIOUS SPECIES OF SALVIA, &C. 
The Amoena, Sambucina, Ochroleuca, &e. &c. thrive best, when 
planted in a good rich loam. The Sambucina is calculated for a 
shrubberv rather than small flower borders; all the aforementioned 
three in connection with virginica, flavissima, spuria, and several 
others require planting in a moist situation, or they do not grow to 
any degree of perfection. The Cristata also thrives best in a moist 
situation, but it must be planted in bog earth (not peat,) and if 
covered with a hand-glass or some other kind of covering in severe 
weather, it will do well. The Chinensis has a complete creeping 
root; it flowers well in the greenhouse, and does very well in the 
open border. The Clandestina requires the heat of the stove, and 
should be potted in sandy loam and peat. 
The best for forcing are Susiana, Persica, and Chinensis. 
All the tuberous rooted species are propagated by dividing the 
roots, for the most part in the autumn, and the bulbous species by 
off-sets. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
ON VARIOUS SPECIES OF SALVIA, AND A KENNEDIA 
RUBICUNDA, AND THUNBERGIA ALATA. 
BY MR. F. F. ASHFORD. 
The unfailing success which I have experienced in cultivating the 
various species of that most beautiful genus the Salvia, induces me 
to trespass on your valuable pages, by briefly detailing my method 
of growing and flowering to great perfection, this elegant tribe of 
plants. I perfectly agree with your able correspondent, G. T. T. 
vol. I, page 773, who says, that when writers notice the cultivation 
of any genus or species of plants, they should at the same time give 
the natural history, and botanical characters of the said genus or 
species. 
Salvia is a very extensive genus, consisting of upwards of one 
hundred and thirty species, natives of each of the four quarters of 
the world, and of course furnishing inmates for the hothouse, green¬ 
house, and flower garden, with three species, and four varieties for 
culinary purposes; namely, S. officinalis, or common sage, with two 
varieties, the varigata, and tenseior, the S. sclarea, or common clary, 
and S. hormium, and two varieties, violaeca, and rubra; they belong 
to the second class and first order, Diandria, Monagynia, of Linneus, 
and the natural order of Labiatea3, of Jussieu, (see page 410, vol. II.) 
The word Salvia is taken from Salons, or Salvam, safe, alluding to 
