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coming up after one has ceased to expect it. The 

 soil should be kept moist so long as there is any chance 

 of more plants appearing. Verbenas will thrive in 

 any good soil, striking root wherever a point touches 

 the ground. Cultivate, if in loam or stiff soil, as long 

 as there is room to work between the plants, which 

 should be set at least a foot apart. Verbenas do 

 finely on the rockwork, seeming to enjoy the cool cor- 

 ners they find under the stones, and the finest I have 

 ever grown have been in such a situation. 



Vincas (Periwinkles) are an exceedingly beautiful 

 and little known tender perennial worthy of extensive 

 cultivation, as easily grown as an Aster or Verbena, 

 and very effective in large beds. For the price of one 

 greenhouse plant a dozen plants may be raised from 

 seed. The foliage is deep green and glossy, and large 

 single flowers of exquisite colour and texture pure 

 ivory white, white with a crimson eye, and rosy crim- 

 son are borne at the end of every branch covering 

 the plants, which grow from fifteen to eighteen inches 

 high and nearly as broad. As a border for a Canna 

 bed nothing could be better, and they make fine sym- 

 metrical winter bloomers. No finer plants for house 

 decoration could be desired. 



The seeds, which should be started early in hotbeds 

 or flats, germinate in from ten to fifteen days, some- 

 times earlier. Set out plants, when all danger of frost 

 is past, in muck, if possible, or in well-enriched loam, 

 setting a foot or fifteen inches apart each way, cultivat- 



