D. M. Ferry A. : Co’s Descriptive Catalogue. 
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SALVIA. 
The Salvia, or Flowering Sage, is a very ornamental 
plant, flowering in spikes of fiery red, crimson and blue, 
and continues in blossom, in open ground till frost,when 
the plants can be removed to the green-house and will 
continue in bloom a long time. Start the plants in hot¬ 
bed, and transplant into light, rich soil, about one foot 
apart. Tender annual ; one to five feet high. 
Salvia, splendens compacta, the finest salvia 
grown, being literally covered with blossoms ; 
grows well from cuttings.15 1 
44 Roemeriana, deep crimson; beautiful; one foot.10 
“ patens, one of the brightest and purest of all 
blue flowered plants, and holds a pre-eminent 
position. 20 | 
SAXVITAUA. 
Very pretty, dwarf, trailing plants, excellent for rock 
work, borders or edging of beds. It is so completely 
covered with flowers as to nearly hide the foliage. The 
flowers are double, and of a brilliant golden yellow, re¬ 
sembling a miniature double zinnia in form. Single va¬ 
rieties are not worth cultivating. Sow where required, 
in open ground, in spring, and thin to six inches apart; 
the plants will then cover the ground. Hardy annual ; 
six inches high. 
Sanvitalia, Procumbens, fl. pi. 10 
SCABIOUS— (See Mourning Bride). 
SCARLET FLAX —(See Linum). 
SEDUM. 
A species of j 
low, succulent j 
plants, some of | 
which are re- 1 
markably pret- | 
ty; grow readily 
u pon stones, 
rocks, walls and 
roofs of houses; 
are admirably 
adapted for the 
center of hang¬ 
ing baskets. 
Sedum, caeruleum, the common blue sedum. fre¬ 
quently known as Blue Stonecrop. Hardy 
annual ; six inches high.10 
SENSITIVE PLANT-(Mimosa). 
An interesting 
and curious 
plant, with 
globular heads 
of pink flowers, 
well known for 
the extreme ir¬ 
ritability of its 
leaves and foot 
stalks, which 
close and droop 
at the slightest 
touch, or in 
cloudy, damp 
weather, and 
during the 
night. The 
plant is most 
irritable in the 
greatest heat, 
and if the upper branches be touched and droop, touch¬ 
ing the lower ones, the whole plant will appear as if 
wilted and dying. Start in hot-beds, or pots, and trans- 
Sensitive Plant. 
Sedum. 
plant into a warm situation, six inches apart. Tender 
annual ; two feet high. 
Mimosa, pudica.. 5 
SMILAX. 
No climbing plant in cultivation surpasses this for 
graceful beauty of its foliage. In cut flowers, and for 
wreaths, etc , it is indispen¬ 
sable to florists. Its hard 
texture enables it to be kept 
several days after being cut, 
without wilting. Nothing 
is finer for clothing statu¬ 
ettes, vases, etc. Soak the 
seed in warm water twelve 
hours, and plant in pots, in 
hot-bed or green-house, in 
February, and keep in a 
warm, moist place. One 
plant in a two-inch pot is 
enough. After they have 
completed their growth, and 
the foliage begins to turn 
yellow, turn the pots on 
their sides and withold water 
till August, when the little 
bulb which has formed, can Smilax. 
be repotted in good, rich earth, and watered freely, and 
it will grow all winter. The seed germinates very slowly. 
'Fender perennial climber ; ten feet high. 
Smilax, Myrsiphyllum asparagoides.15 
SNAPDRAGON-(Antirrljinuin). 
The Saap- 
dragon is an old 
favorite border 
plant, with 
dark and glos¬ 
sy leaves, and 
large, curiously 
shaped flowers 
with finely 
marked throats. 
They have been 
much improved 
by careful se¬ 
lection, and 
now are really 
magnificent 
flowers. They 
blossom the/ 
first season 
from seed sown 
in spring, but 
the blossoms will be much stronger the second season. 
Succeeds best in dry, loamy soil. Tender perennial ; 
two feet high. 
Antirrhinum majus album, pure white . 5 
“ majus brilliant, crimson, white throat.5 
44 “ Delila, white throat. 5 
44 fine mixed, all the best colors. 5 
SOLANUM. 
A class of beautiful ornamental, fruit bearing plants. 
They are useful for conservatory decoration, and pre¬ 
sent a beautiful appearance in the drawing room. Most 
of the varieties are half-hardy perennial shrubs, and 
j can be planted out when danger of frost is over. 1 he 
foliage is beautiful, but the fruit is the chief attraction, 
being very beautiful in appearance, but not edible. 
Solanum, pseudo capsicum, covered with a profu¬ 
sion of miniature, pepper shaped, scarlet fruit 10 
44 hybridum compactum, large orange-scarlet 
berries, produced abundantly. Elegant for 
house or green-house decoration during winter 15 
