VIBURNUM. 403 VIBURNUM. 
a faded look. V. Arranidna has| coloured in the bud, and dark-blue 
an upright habit of growth and pur- | berries, which is very valuable in 
plish crimson flowers ; but it is very 
tender, and very apt to be attacked 
by aphides. V. Aublétia and V. 
Lamberti are prostrate species and 
very hardy; V. Sabinii, another 
prostrate species, has lilach flowers, 
and it has a variety with white ones. | 
V. pulchélla is also prostrate, and | 
so is V. sulphitrea, the flowers of 
which are yellow. V. Neiilii, V.| 
teucroides, and V. vendsa, are up- | 
The first has lilach | 
right-growing. 
flowers, the second white ones, and 
the last purple ; the last two are of 
a very coarse iis 
riodora. (See Atoy'sta.) All. the 
Verbenas will grow in any light soil, | 
but they thrive best in sandy peat | 
or heath-mould. 
bit of growth. The | 
Lemon-scented plant, Verbéna tri- | 
phy'lla, is now called Aloy'sia cit-| 
town gardens, as it flowers from 
December till March. It is a na- 
tive of the south of Europe and the 
north of Africa. ‘There is a varie- 
ty with shining leaves and larger 
more tender than the common kind. 
When the Laurestinus is grown 
/near a dwelling-house, care should 
be taken in spring, when the leaves 
drop, to have them swept away 
every day, as they have an ex- 
tremely disagreeable smell when 
they are decaying, and are said to 
be very unwholesome. The tree 
Viburnum (V. Lantdgo) is a native 
of North America, and it forms a 
very hardy and handsome low tree 
cymes of flowers, but it is rather, 
in British gardens. It is also valu- 
able for the great abundance of its 
| berries, which are a favourite food 
Vero'nica. — Scrophularinee.— | with birds. The Wayfaring Tree, 
Speedwell. Very pretty perennial or Wild Guelder Rose (V. Lanté- 
and annual plants, generally with | 7a), is another interesting small 
blue flowers, natives of Europe, and tree; and V. cotinifolium is a beau- 
many of them found wild in Bri- tiful ‘species from Nepaul. The 
tain. They are all of the easiest most interesting kind of Viburnum 
culture, as they will grow well in| grown in small gardens is, however, 
any common garden-soil that is to- | the Guelder Rose, or Snowball Tree, 
lerably light, and at the same time | V. O’pulus. This is a deciduous 
moist ; and they are propagated by | shrub, a native of Europe and part 
seeds and division of the root.| of Asia, which is always found in 
Many of the kinds are very suitable| a wild state in swampy thickets. 
for rockwork. In a wild state its principal beauty 
Vervain.—See VERBE'NA. lies in its bright red berries ; but in 
Vesica‘rIa. — setly ih yellow state of cultivation its heads of 
baceous plants, mostly with yellow flowers become so compact, of such 
flowers, natives of Europe and a snowy whiteness, as amply to 
America, that should be grown in justify its popular name of the 
sandy loam, and which are propa-| Snowball Tree. All the Vibur- 
gated by seeds or division of the | nums are hardy in British gardens ; 
root. and they will all grow freely in any 
Vercu.—sSee Vi'cra. common soil. They are generally 
__ Visu'rnum. — Caprifolidcee. —| propagated by layers, but cuttings 
"The Viburnum. Ornamental shrubs, | will strike freely if kept moist, and 
generally with terminal corymbs of in a shady situation. When trans- 
white flowers. One of the best} planted, the evergreen species should 
known of these, the Laurestinus,| be removed in October or Novem- 
V. Tinus, is an evergreen bush, | ber, as they have few fibrous roots, 
with white flowers that are rose-|and are very apt to be killed by a 
