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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



August 22, 1907. 



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VERBENAS. 



At the Temple show in London, 1907, 

 a special feature was made of the sec- 

 tion of verbenas to which the term auri- 

 cula-eyed has been applied, and certainly 

 the large white eye, especially in flowers' 

 whose ground color contrasted markedly 

 therewith, was very conspicuous, says a 

 writer in the Gardeners' Magazine. 

 Some varieties in this" section are Adonis, 

 scarlet; Ethereal, rose-pink; Favorite, 

 purple; Florence, bluish-violet; Radiant, 

 bright crimson; The Queen, salmon- 

 pink; Victor, rich purple; and Vulcan, 

 deep crimson. Self-colored flowers of 

 the Miss Willmott class were also well 

 represented. 



With regard to the at one time popu- 

 larity of the verbenas, their decline, and 

 recent resuscitation, it may be pointed 

 out that in the decade 1860 to 1870 no 

 less than seventy-three were given certifi- 

 cates by the Royal Horticultural Society 

 of Great Britain, while in the next ten 

 years the number was thirty-three, most 

 of them being awarded in the early part 

 of the decade. From that time, owing to 

 disease and the vagaries "of fashion, the 

 culture of verbenas greatly declined, till 

 the advent of the variety Miss "Willmott 

 acted as a decided stimulus to their cul- 

 ture. This variety was raised from seed, 

 by the lady whose name it bears, ten or 

 twelve years ago. It was selected by 

 reason of its large flowers, vigorous 

 habit, and delightful shade of pink, 

 qualities which commended it to the no- 

 tice of the growers for Covent Garden 

 Market, who saw in it a promising novel- 

 ty, and t:; those who took up its culture 

 it proved at once very remunerative. 



In the early days of the verbena one 

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 Eckford, so well known in after years 

 for his work in the development of the 

 sweet pea. Even when the garden varie- 

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 more vigorous growing and nearly hardy 

 species, V. venosa, with purplish-lilac 

 flowers, retained its popularity, and was 

 in general use for bedding purposes. It 

 is a native of Brazil, was introduced in 

 1830, and resists the disease which used 

 to carry off the garden varieties in su^^h 

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At the Temple show just named an 

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 is of neat, compact habit, with bright 

 rose-colored blossoms. 



COUNTESS SPENCER SWEET PEA. 



The Countess Spencer sweet pea seems 

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 colors, says a correspondent of the 

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 are the result of cross-fertilization, and 

 until recently I imagined that they must 

 all be the result of Mr. Cole's crosses, 

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to this flower possessing an open keel 

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