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Cuttings. 



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Loam 



evergreen shrubs 

 and peat. 



VANILLA. Three species. V. bi- 

 color, a stove epiphyte, increased by 

 division, and growing on wood. The 

 otlier two increase by cuttings. Moss 

 and turfy peat 



VEPRLS ohovata. Stove evergreen 

 I shrub. Cuttings. Peat, loam, and 

 sand. 



VERATUM. Six "Species. Hardy 

 herbaceous perennials. Division or 

 seeds. Rich soil. 



VERBASCUM. Sixty-four species. 



VAR'IEGATION is the colour of Chielly hardy biennials, and a few 

 leaves diflerent from green, such as herbaceous perennials. V. spinosum is 

 "the silvery and golden margins, and a half-hardy evergreen shrub; V. ha- 

 varieties of spots, which are common morrhoidale, and V. pinnatifidum, are 

 among garden plants, as in myrtle, green-house biennials. Seeds; the pe- 

 sage, ivy, holly, the Agave Americana, • rennials by division. Common soil. 

 Seiupcrvivuni arboreum, and many of, VERBENA. Vervain. Thirty-two 

 the Pelavf^oniic. These spots are not species. Hardy, half-hardy and green- 

 diseases, ibr the whole plant has all the house herbaceous perennials, and hardy 

 signs of being in a perfectly healthy and half-hardy annuals and biennials. 

 state. But neither are they effects ofj These latter increase by seed, the pe 

 a law of nature, like the spots of OrcA/s 

 7naculata, and the red-coloured leaves 

 of Caladitim bicolor and Amaranthus 

 tricolor, inasmuch as they are not con- 

 tinued by propagation by seed. Such 

 discoloured spots are incapable of per- 

 forming the usual function of leaves, 

 namely, the exhalation of oxygen 

 gas." — Decandolle. 



Yet this variegation does not render 

 the plant more tender; for the varie- 

 gated holly and ivy are as hardy as 

 those with leaves entirely green. 



V AS CO A. Two species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Young cut- 

 tings. Loam and peat. 



VEGf:TABLE MANURES. See 

 Green Manures, Ashes, Manures. 



VEGETABLE MARROW. See 

 Gourd. 



VELEZIA rigida. Hardy annual. 

 Seeds. Light soil. 



V E L L A Pseudo - cytisus. Cress 

 Rocket. Green-house evergreen shrub. 

 Young cuttings. Common soil. 



VELLEJA. Three species. Green- 

 liouse herbaceous perennials. Division 

 or seeds. Loam, peat, and sand. 



VELTHEIMIA. Three species. 

 Green-house bulbous perennials. Off- 

 sets. Light loamy soil. 



VENTILATION. See Stove. 



VENUS'S COMB. Scandix pecten- 



rennials by cuttings. Light loam. 



Choice Varieties are — 



Scarlet. — V. Atrosanguinea; V. 

 Boule de Feu. 



Orange Scarlet. — V. formosa ele- 

 gans ; Gladiator. 



White. — Princess Royal; Monarch; 

 Alba magna. 



Purple. — V. Stewartii ; Emma. 



Reddish Purple. — V. rubra; V. pur- 

 purea ; Renown ; V. rubescens. 



Ruby. — Defiance ; RuIjv. 



Rose. — Bridesmaid ; Wood's Princess 

 Royal; Beauty ; Supreme ; Teucriodes 

 Rosea ; Rose d- Amour. 



Mulberry. — Mulberry. 



Cream. — V. lutescens. 



Lilac. — Messenger; Giant. 



Propagation. — By Seed. — Sow to- 

 wards the end of February in shallow- 

 pans, to be placed in a gentle heat. 

 The seedlings may be planted out in 

 summer in a warm part of the garden, 

 where they will flower in the autumn. 



By Cuttings. — In the last week of 

 August or first week of September, 

 take cuttings from laterals not in bloom. 

 Pot them in sixties, filled firmly with 

 sandy loam and leaf mould; water and 

 plunge in a hot-bed, temperature not 

 more than 4.3^, under a hand-glass, 

 shading from sunshine, and when rooted 

 pinch off their tops. 

 >neris. I By Layers. — Verbenas in the open 



VENUS'S FLY-TRAP. Lioncea mus- < borders are readily propagated by peg- 



cipula. 



ging down the laterals in September in 



VENUS'S HAIR. Adiantum capillis pots filled with earth and sunk into the 



bed near the plants. The layers will 

 be rooted in about six weeks, when they 



Spe-\ 



veneris. 



VENUS-S LOOKING-GLASS 



cularia speculum. 



VENUS'S NAVELWORT. Ompha 

 lodes. 



lay be separated from the parent 

 plant. Put them into a gentle heat, 

 repot them, and keep through the 



