The weather is so ideal, and my garden so gorgeous with all those chrysanthemums and SALVIAS and geraniums and roses, that it would be sinful not to take advantage of such conditions.
"Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man"
Marie Conway Oemler
Nay, breathes deeply of the heavy perfume of the white jasmines of his country, while musing of the scarlet SALVIAS of a distant land.
"The Book of Khalid"
Ameen Rihani
Very tenderly, as if he were an executioner considerate of the victims of an inexorable law, he was snipping the stems, his head bent close to the blooms, when a bumblebee appeared among the SALVIAS a few feet away.
"The Last Shot"
Frederick Palmer