260 Descj-iptions of Ten New Verbenas. 



highest perfection with the aid of a small frame and the after 

 protection of a verandah ; here they were effectually sheltered 

 from wet, and shaded from the direct rays of the sun. Un- 

 der such conditions, the flowers remained for an unusually 

 long period in perfection ; and it would not be easy to imag- 

 ine anything more strikingly beautiful in such a situation 

 than a few well-grown plants of lilium lancifolium roseum, 

 punctatum, album, and rubrum. If very large specimens are 

 desired, try five or seven full-grown bulbs of Rubrum, or of 

 any of the other varieties, in an IS-inch pot, and I venture 

 to promise that you will have such a picture of floral beauty 

 as you never previously possessed. 



Art. V. Descriptions of Ten New Verbenas. 

 By the Editor. 



In our last volume we described the principal new verbenas 

 of merit which had been introduced or flov/ered in our col- 

 lections ; they were mostly of French origin, the Parisian 

 cultivators having made greater improvements in this most 

 beautiful flower than the English florists. Other new varie- 

 ties, of both French and English origin, have been added 

 this year, but they have not yet flowered so as to give any 

 account of their merits ; the principal of these we have 

 already named, (p. 175.) Consequently the only new ones 

 we have now to notice are our own seedlings, which flowered 

 late in summer, and which, after having bloomed again, we 

 now are enabled fully to describe. 



It is no easy task now to produce seedling verbenas of su- 

 perior merit; since it has taken a rank as a "florists' flower," 

 its combined properties are taken into estimation, and a va- 

 riety which formerly might be attractive on account of its 

 color alone, will now possess little merit. A good habit; a 

 free bloomer ; strong flower stems ; large and well formed 

 trusses ; large flowers, of fine circular outline, and clear or 

 novel colors ; are some of the points which constitute a fine 

 variety; and in the effort to get all of them, but few succeed. 



