THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
November, 1845. 
ON THE GENERA DELPHINIUM AND SALVIA. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION, 
Our accompanying plate contains a group that may fairly 
claim to rank among the most interesting and useful of the 
long list of hardy ornamental plants. They afford another in¬ 
stance of what may be done in the improvement of races., by 
attention to the production of seedlings, the whole of them 
being seminal varieties of old and well known species, though 
so great a difference exists in the present and normal condition 
of the kinds. 
1. Delphinium Iveryanum is a double variety of D. Chinense , 
a species introduced from Tartary in 1819, and an universal 
favourite. It has given birth to several varieties until it is com¬ 
pletely obscured by its own progeny, the present far surpassing 
all previous ones. Its name is a compliment to Mr. Ivery, the 
enterprising nurseryman of Peckham, to whom we are indebted 
for the three subjects which form our plate. It is a dwarf 
variety, seldom attaining more than two feet in height. 
2. D. splendidum was obtained, we believe, from D. grandi- 
jlorum , a species originally brought from Siberia, above a hun¬ 
dred years since. The variety attains a height of about 3 feet, 
fully one half of which is taken up with the spike of flowers, 
and these being produced numerously from the base of esta- 
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