The Garden Under Glass

THE BEST FLOWERING PLANTS ioi can readily be produced from seeds but requires rather stronger heat than its white relative. These lilies when well flowered make a brave show. Salvia Splendens and Patens The scarlet salvia is undoubtedly a very brilliant plant in the autumn, and with good treatment I have known it last well in the conservatory for quite three months. It also looks pleasing, though vivid, in a drawing-room vase. We certainly must have salvias in our greenhouse to cheer the duli time of autumn. The cuttings root very easily in a warm house any time during the spring. Afterwards the plants are easily managed, for once they are established in 3-inch pots they may join Company with Chrysanthemums and be grown along with them, being treated similarly in every respect. Throughout their career the plants show a disposition to flower. This must be repressed by pinching out the points till the end of August. Free and forcible syringing will keep down that dreaded pest—red-spider. A point of culture meriting special emphasis is that the plants must never be allowéd to become so dry as to flag. To obviate this I would advise plunging in ashes during the hottest part of the summer. After flowering, the plants may be cut back and put in a cold house or frame until cuttings are needed. It is not generally known that this plant can be grown successfully from seeds sown early in January. Last year I had a nice batch raised in this manner, the variety being Sutton’s Scarlet Queen. Salvia patens is a pretty sky-blue, which is much grown outside but not so often inside. It forms tuberous roots