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winter in a cold frame, giving very V'ERXOXIA. Fifteen species. Ilardv 



little water during that season. green-house and stove herbaceous pe- 



General Culture. — Mr. G. Fielder, rennials, and stove evergreen shrubs, 



gardener to \V. Ifrisco, Esq., of Hast- I', linearis is a stove annual. Seeds 



ings, says that six plants of a kind are and young cuttings, and the herbaceous 



usually enough to obtain cuttings and kinds bv division. Light rich soil. 



' VER'ONIC.V. Speedwell. Onehun- 



dred and twenty-five species. Cl)iellv 



layers from for bedding out. His mode 

 of proceeding is as follows: — 



" In the first or second vvcek in Jidy hardy herbaceous perennials. Some 

 strike in sixty pots as many cuttings of are deciduous trees and trailers, and a 



the ditferent kinds as required tor fill- 

 ing the beds in the following year, 

 about six pots of a sort being usually 

 sufficient. Early ia .\ugust, tlie pots 

 being filled with roots, prepare as many 

 boxes, two feet square sorts, filling one- 

 third of each box with broken tiles, 

 and the rest witli one part sand, one 

 leaf-mould, and two parts good rich 



few evergreen shrubs and creepers. 

 The green-house shrubs increase by 

 cuttings. Tho hardy annuals by seeds. 

 The herbaceous by division. Common 

 soil suits them all. 



VERVAIN. See Verbena. 



VESICARIA. Nine species. Hardy 

 and half-hardy annuals, biennials, her- 

 baceous perennials, and evergreen 



loam. Plant in them at equal distances shrubs. Seeds. Sandy loam, 

 apart, and the shoots being pegged ^ \V.STl.\ lycioides. Green-house de- 

 down they soon take root all over the ciduous shrub. Cuttings. Peat and 



oain. 

 VII30RGIA. Two species. Green- 

 cut- 



box, and form one mass. Place in a 

 cold frame during the winter, and the 



lights thrown otf except in wet or frosty I house evergreen shrubs. Youn 

 weather. Early in the spring they begin tings. Sandy loam and peat, 

 to make young shoots, which pot in sixty VIBURNUM. Twenty-seven species 

 pots and strike in a cucumber frame ; and some varieties. Hardy deciduous 

 these will be ready to plant out by the and evergreen shrubs; a very few be- 

 long to the stove and green-house, and 

 one or two are lialf-hardy. Layers or 

 cuttings. Peat and loam; V. opulus ia 

 the Guelder Rose. 



VICIA. Vetch. Seventy-seven spe- 

 cies. Chiefly hardy annuals and climb- 



end of April, at which time the boxes 

 are turned out, one side being removed 

 and the mass planted in the centre of 

 a bed. The bed is then filled up with 

 the young plants from the sixty pots ; 

 those out of the boxes, being oldest 



and strongest, take the lead and keep ing annuals or deciduous climbers. 



Seeds : and the few perennial kinds by 



it."' — Gard. Chron. 



In Pots. — Some of these trained over division and seeds. 



a trellis should alwavs be on the creen- 



VIEUSSEUXIA. 



Common soil 

 Eleven species. 



house. All the particular attention Green-house bulbous perennials. V 



required is that they should be kept glaucopis is half-hardy. Offsets or 



regularly shifted into pots of a larger seeds. Peat, loam, and sand, 

 size as they require it, and should be VIGNA globea. Hardy training an- 



where they receive the full benefit of 

 the sun and air 

 will suit them. 



Such are the directions for its culture 



VIGUIERA. Two species. Stove 

 Any free rich soil herbaceous perennials. Cuttings. Sandy 

 peat and loam. 



VILLARSIA. Ten species. Hardy, 



as given in the I^nglish edition of this half-hardy, green-house and stove 

 work. In the United States the climate aquatic and herbaceous perennials. Di- 

 is more favourable for the Verbena, and vision or seed. Peat and sand; and 

 when turned out in an open border the perennial, or marshy kinds, in 

 early in summer, the only care requisite i pots placed in water 



seems to be lest it take entire posses- 

 sion of the garden. 



V1LM0RINI.\ multijlora. Stove 

 evergreen shrub. Seeds and cuttings. 



VERHESIN.\. Eightspecies. Green- Loam, peat, and sand 



house and hardy herbaceous perennials 



V. boswallia is a green-house annual, house evergreen shrubs, 

 and V.atriplicifolia a.n evergreen shrub. Light loam and peat 

 Division. Light rich soil 



VIMINARI.V. Two species. Green- 

 Cuttings. 



VINC.V. Periwinkle. Three spe- 



