VERBENA VIOLA WALLFLO WER 27 1 



cultivation are not only traceable to the coddling of the plant under 

 glass, but also to the careless way in which it is often planted on poor 

 worn-out soil that has been cropped for years, and never refreshed 

 with manure, or the sweetening effects of a good digging. Raising 

 Verbenas from seed will restore this plant to the list of hardy, easily 

 grown, thoroughly useful subjects, and will also produce one of the 

 most effective flowers for the parterre. 



The V. venosa and V. pulcherrima sections also come perfectly 

 true and uniform from seed, and make fine sheets of colour for 

 sloping banks, and knolls, and rockeries, as well as beds in the parterre. 



VIOLA 



Hardy perennial 



THIS plant well merits its popularity for use in beds and borders. 

 It is perfectly hardy, the habit is good, and it continues in bloom 

 for nearly nine months in the year. 



The treatment prescribed for Pansy is also suitable for Viola. 



WALLFLOWER 



Cheiranthus Cheiri. Hardy biennial 



WALLFLOWERS are often sown too late. As a result the growth is not 

 thoroughly ripened, and the plants present but a feeble show of bloom. 

 They should in their season be solid with bloom, not dotted with it ; 

 little mountains of fire and gold, exhaling a perfume that few flowers 

 can equal in its peculiar freshness. Sow the seed in May or June, in 

 a sunny place, on rather poor, but sweet, and well-prepared soil 

 favourable to free rooting. When the plants are two inches high, 

 transplant into rows six inches asunder, allowing three inches apart 

 in the row. In about three weeks afterwards, transplant again, six 

 or nine inches apart every way, aiding with water when needful to 

 help them to new growth. Or lift every other row and every other 

 plant, leaving the remainder untouched to supply flowers for cutting. 

 When the beds are cleared of their summer occupants, the best plants 

 may be transferred to them, to afford cheerful green leafage all through 

 the winter, and a grand bloom of Wallflowers in the spring, as frost 

 will not hurt the single varieties, but the doubles will not always en- 

 dure uninjured the rigours of a severe winter. 



