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continuance of dry weather if they | grown im a pot, and all the: lateral 
are transplanted in spring. shoots cut off. és ‘ 
Vici. — Leguminése. — The| Vine.—The common Vine (Vitis 
Vetch. The ornamental species are | vinifera) may often be introduced 
generally pretty climbing lamin! with very good effect in ornamental 
with purplish flowers, natives of| garden scenery, for covering a 
Europe. Some of the kinds, how-; bower or veranda, or traiming 
blue, and others pale-yellow flowers. | room. Nothing can, indeed, be 
All the kinds grow freely in any | more beautiful than a Vine in the 
garden soil, though they thrive most | last-mentioned situation, forming a 
when the soil is deep and sandy; framework, as it were, to the gar- 
and they are propagated by seeds | den beyond ; and with its beautiful 
or division of the roots. leaves looking almost transparent 
Vieusseu‘x1a. — Jridee.— The|in the morning sun. <A Vine also 
Peacock Iris. These beautiful flow- | looks very well when suffered to 
ers are better known under their) grow naturally among the tall trees 
old names of J‘ris Pavonia and | of a lawn or shrubbery,.as it hangs 
Morea, than under their present | itself from branch to branch in a 
almost unpronounceable appellation. | manner more graceful than any art 
They are very nearly hardy, and|can hope te imitate. Vines thus 
may be grown in the open border, | treated would have a ° good 
if treated as directed for I’x1a (p.| effect in the grounds of an Italian 
260); but as the bulbs are very | villa. The three American species, 
small and delicate, it is, perhaps, | V. labrisca, or the Wild Vine, V. 
safer to grow them in pots, in equal | vulpina, or the Fox Grape, and V. 
parts of peat, vegetable-mould, and | ripdria, or the Sweet-scented Vine, 
sand, and to keep them dry, or take | the flowers of which smell like Mig- 
them out of the pots when they | nionette, are all very suitable for 
have done flowering, till the plant- | growing in the open air, from their 
ing or growing season returns the | extreme hardiness. All Vimes like 
following year. a very rich and s hat moist 
Vi'nca.—Apocy'nee.—The Peri-| soil, and thrive best when their 
roots can get access to a drain, sew- 
common in British gardens, both! er, or muddy pond. 
of which are creeping or trailing; Vi‘ota. — Violécee.— Beautiful 
evergreen shrubs, which will grow | perennial. dwarf plants, natives of 
freely under the shade of trees.| Europe and North America, and 
They both prefer a soft, moist soil, | growing generally in the moist 
which they can easily penetrate | shady banks in woods. There ar 
with their long creeping reots. V.| nearly 150 kinds grown in British 
major is the common species, and | gardens, but the most common are 
V. minor only differs in the flowers | V. odordta (see VioweT), and V. 
being smaller, and the whole plant | trécelor (see Hearr’s-Ease). The 
more delicate. The Periwinkle is| shrubby or Tree Violet (V. palma- 
generally propagated by its runners, | énsis), a native of one of the Canary 
which strike roots from every joint, | Isles, is a very handsome plant, 
like those of the strawberry, and| growing about two feet high, with 
which only want dividing from the | a shrubby stem, and large purplish- 
parent to become plants. When it | blue flowers; it is usually kept ina 
is wished to make the Periwinkle | greenhouse in England, where it 
produce seeds, the plant should be| flowers from May to July. The 
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