VERBENA, VERONICA, VIBURNUM, VINGA 547 



takes time. Also you cannot do it in a hothouse. Grow less of them, 

 but grow the best you can and grow them as well as you know how 

 and there will be more money in it. 



VERONICA (SPEEDWELL) 



The Veronicas, of which there are half a dozen or so varieties, 

 are all fine perennials, producing good cut flowers besides. With their 

 graceful spikes of white, lavender, and blue flowers, they are most 

 attractive when in groups. The taller growing sorts should be 

 staked. Most of the Veronicas do best when divided each Fall 

 and transplanted, but all of them will produce seed and can be sown 

 under glass to be planted out in May. 



VIBURNUM 



There are a number of beautiful Viburnums which grow into 

 large specimens. Some have most showy flowers in early Summer 

 that are followed, as is the case with V. Opulus, the Highbush Cran- 

 berry, by clusters of crimson-red berries in Fall. The best known 

 is V. Opulis sterilis, the common Snowball, while the one with the 

 best foliage is V. plicatum, or the Japanese Snowball. The latter is 

 a mass of white flowers in Spring and has large Weigela-like leaves, 

 purplish tinted. 



Be sure to include some of the Viburnums in your list of desir- 

 able shrubs. 



VINGA (MYRTLE, OR PERIWINKLE) 



While we see most of the hardy Myrtle (Vinca minor) in the 

 cemeteries, there is plenty of good use for it on the home grounds. 

 It will thrive and cover the surface where there is hardly enough 

 sun for other things; it makes an ideal border; it can be used along 

 the edge of the water garden or in the rockery; and each Spring 

 and Fall we have customers asking for a few plants to be set out on 

 graves. So it is well to have a stock of it on hand, especially in view 

 of the small amount of care the plants require. 



VlNCA MAJOR VARIEGATA (THE VARIEGATED VlNCAS) 



The variegated as well as the green Vincas that we use for 

 porch boxes, vases and hanging baskets, are plants of which the 

 retail grower hardly ever has enough during the Spring months. 

 And that isn't all. By the time he is sold out, with the season not 

 nearly over, he often finds that the hardest thing to obtain is good 

 Vincas. No matter how fine your Geraniums and the other stock 

 you have for filling porch boxes, if there is a lack of vines along the 

 edge or if the Vincas you have there are too short, there usually is 

 trouble and dissatisfaction. 



