what are 'salad days' ? What does 'coming of age' mean?

Some sort of strange coming-of-age thing?

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Salad days = warm sunny weather = "the best days of your life".

Coming of age is generally regarded as having reaching the age at which a child becomes an adult. Voting/marrying without parental consent/etc.