. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. SALVIA SALVIA 1607 date: fls. scarlet, 1 in. or more long'; calyx purplish or reddish towards tips; lower lip a triHe longer than the upper, the middle lobe large and 2-cIeft. Tex., Mex. R. H. 1854:301. 4939. 11:1080. - Considered hardy by Thorburn. Section 10. 7. S6ssei, Benth. {S. Bmzlii, Sclieidw.)
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. SALVIA SALVIA 1607 date: fls. scarlet, 1 in. or more long'; calyx purplish or reddish towards tips; lower lip a triHe longer than the upper, the middle lobe large and 2-cIeft. Tex., Mex. R. H. 1854:301. 4939. 11:1080. - Considered hardy by Thorburn. Section 10. 7. S6ssei, Benth. {S. Bmzlii, Sclieidw.). Fig. 2243. Remarkable for its large fls. (2 in. long), with boldly deflexed lower lip, which is not 3-lobed but merely 2- cut at apex; also remarkable for the large, loose calyx, flushed with brick-red towards apex. Mexican sub- shrub: h's. ovate, serrate, not cordate. 14:1407. 8. carduicea, Benth. Fig. 2243. Unique among Salvias for its thistle-like foliage and fringed fls. The Ivs. and the large conspicuoits bracts are very prickly and the lilac- colored fls. much cut, the fringes of the lower lip being more numerous and deeper. Tender perennial from Calif., 1-1}.^ ft. high, very woolly: Ivs. all radical, densely woolly be- neath. B. M. 4874. G. C. II. 19:ered by Calif, collec- tors and lately by eastern seeds- men. Section 8. 9. C olumbS,riaB, Benth. A common Californian annual hardly worth cult, for ornament, the blue fls. being about % in. across and not as long as the bracts. Height 9 ft.: Ivs. few,wrinkled, radical ones long- stalked, oblong, pinnatifid or bipinnatifld ; divisions obtuse. 6595 (fls. lilac).-Offered by Orcutt. 10. officinalis, Linn. Sage. Woolly white, south European subshrub, varying greatly in breadth and wooUiuess of Ivs.: fls. purple, blue or white, large or small : whorls few, dense, 10-20-fld. — The form commonly cultivated as a kitchen herb is var. tentiior, Alef., with blue fls. and Ivs. 3-4 tijnes as long as broad. Oth
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