VERONICA 



FOXGLOVE OBDEB 



VBBONICA 725 



March or April will be sturdy enough for 

 planting out. 



The trailing and tufted kinds may be 

 increased by dividing the roots in spring, 

 or in the case of those trailing kinds that 

 root at the joints of the branches, each 

 portion with a cluster of roots will grow 

 into a plant if severed and put into good 

 sandy soil and kept a little shaded until 

 established. 



The following is a list of the best 

 kinds for the garden, but there are many 

 others to be found in botanical collections. 



V. Andersoni. — A beautiful but some- 

 what tender shrub, of garden origin, about 

 1^ ft. high, with oblong thickish leaves 

 3-4 in. long, and racemes of bluish-violet 

 or whitish flowers produced in summer 

 and autumn. The variegated form is 

 very handsome, but even more tender 

 than the type. They should both be 

 grown in warm sheltered spots. Usually 

 grown as pot plants for conservatory 

 decoration. 



Culture dc. as above. Increased by 

 cuttings in late summer and autumn. 

 Specimens have been recorded as having 

 stood 10°-20° of frost without injury. 



V. angustifolia. — A very old but rarely 

 seen New Zealand species about 18 in. 

 high, with slender erect stems, and very 

 narrow pointed leaves. Flowers from 

 July to September, blue, in spiked ra- 

 cemes at the ends of the branches. 



Culture dc. as above. This species 

 occasionally ' sports ' into variegated 

 forms, and although these may be easily 

 increased by cuttings, they revert in a 

 year or two to the green state. It has 

 stood a frost of 16° uninjured for about 

 6 weeks. At one time largely grown as a 

 pot plant. 



V. anomala. — ^A beautiful dense-grow- 

 ing New Zealand shrub 3-6 ft. high, with 

 purplish or reddish branches, and decus- 

 sate, linear oblong, leathery leaves, |-1 

 in. long, often tinted with red. Flowers 

 in summer, white, in crowded racemes. 



Culture dc. as above. Increased by 

 cuttings. 



V. carnosula. — A distinct New Zea- 

 land shrub, often with a trailing habit, 

 and having broadly ovate or oblong 

 rounded, very thick leaves, and dense 

 racemes of white flowers in summer. 



Culture do. as above. Increased by 

 cuttings. It has stood 10° of frost without 

 injury, when protected with snow. 



V. chathamica. — A beautiful trailing 

 and rambling New Zealand shrub, with 

 slender, wiry, and downy branches, and 

 oblong- elliptic acute leaves, ^1 in. long. 

 The deep purple or sometimes white 

 flowers are borne in late summer in 

 dense racemes at the ends of the branches 

 and the axUs of the upper leaves, and 

 have a very showy appearance. 



In ordinary winters this species is 

 practically hardy, and there would be 

 little difficulty in giving it some protec- 

 tion in very severe winters. Its trailing 

 habit makes it a valuable plant for the 

 decoration of the rookery. 



Culture Sc. as above. 



V. cookiana. — A handsome New Zea- 

 land shrub, with almost sessile, slightly 

 downy, opposite, elliptic leaves, about 

 Sj in. long. Flowers in autumn, small, 

 white, in dense axillary pyramidal 

 racemes 3-4 in. long, with much protrud- 

 ing style and stamens. 



Culture do. as above. Increased by 

 cuttings in late summer and autumn. 



V. cupressoides. — A pretty and very 

 variable New Zealand shrub reaching a 

 height of 3-4 ft. in a wild state, but rarely 

 more than a foot or so high in cultivation. 

 The leaves are very small and closely 

 pressed to the slender branches which re- 

 semble the tips of some forms of Cupressus 

 or Betinospora. Flowers violet, minute, 

 3-4 at the ends of the slender branches. 

 This species is often called V. salicor- 

 noides in gardens, but the latter does not 

 appear to be in cultivation. V. lycopo- 

 dioides is a somewhat similar species with 

 tiny white flowers. 



Culture do. as above. Increased by 

 cuttings. 



V. elliptica (K decussata). — A small 

 tree or shrub 5-20 ft. high, native of New 

 Zealand and parts of South America, 

 from Chili southwards. Leaves dose-set, 

 linear or obovate oblong, ^-| in. long. 

 Flowers in summer, white, ^-| in. across, 

 in short, few-flowered racemes. 



Culture dc. as above. This species 

 has passed uninjured through 10° of frust. 

 It may be increased by cuttings. 



V. Fairfieldi. — A pretty little Veronica 

 supposed to be of garden origin, and not 

 a true native of New Zealand. It is 

 bushy in habit, and 6-9 in. high, the 

 branches being furnished with small thick 

 glossy green leaves. The blue flowers are 



