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VACCINIUM VITIS-ID^A.— 7?«i/ Whortleberry. 



A DWARF British evergreen, with box-Hke foliage, but of a paler 

 green, and with clusters of small white, or pale rose-coloured, 

 flowers, which appear in summer, and are followed by berries 

 about the size of red Currants, very like those of the Cranberry, 

 on wiry stems from three to nine inches high. It forms a neat 

 little bush on rockwork, or in beds in peat soil. 



The Marsh Cranberry (K Oxycoccos), a native of wet bogs in. 

 Britain, with very slender creeping shoots and drooping dark- 

 rose flowers, requiring wetter soil than the preceding, is also 

 worthy of a place where bog-plants are admired. The Ame- 

 rican Cranberry {V. macrocarpuni), a much larger plant, distin- 

 guished from the preceding by its oblong-obtuse leaves, and 

 very much larger fruit, is also worthy of a place in moist sandy 

 peat, associated with bog shrubs. 



VERONICA CHAMfflDRYS. — Germander Speedwell. 



A WELL-KNOWN and much-admired little native plant, with 

 ovate, or heart-shaped, hairy leaves, and with hairs curiously 

 arranged in two opposite lines down the stem, while the other 

 portions are bare. The flowers are bright blue, produced in 

 great numbers. It is abundant in nearly all parts of Britain, 

 and may be allowed to crawl about here and there in the less 

 important parts of rock- or root- work. Easily increased by seed 

 or division. 



VERONICA PROSTRATA.— P^tf J/ra/«. Speedwell. 



A DWARF spreading plant, forming dark-green tufts, under 

 six inches high, the leaves lance-shaped or linear ; the stems 

 covered with a short down, forming circular tufts, and nearly 

 woody at the base ; flowers of a deep blue, but varying a good 

 deal, there being several varieties with rose-coloured and white 

 blooms, appearing in ea:rly summer, somewhat earUer than V. 

 Teucrium. A hardy and pretty plant, flowering so freely that, 

 when in full perfection, the leaves are often quite obscured by 

 the flowers. A native of France, Central and Southern Europe, 

 occurring on stony hills and in dry grassy places, and, in culti- 

 vation, succeeding perfectly in dry sandy soil, though by no 



