THE FLORIST 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



VERBENA SOUVENIR OF JANE C. HANSON. 



This variety was obtained by Mr. -Thomas F. Croft of this city. It is 

 for size, form and color, perhaps the best white variety now grown. Mr. 

 Croft has been unusually successful in raising varieties of this favorite 

 bedding plant ; several of which we have noticed in former numbers. A 

 drawing and some of the plants having been sent to M. Van Houtte, of 

 Ghent, he has furnished us with the plates, and has given it the name 

 which it bears. 



POT CULTURE OF THE VERBENA. 



As the Verbena merits a place, and most justly, among popular florists' 

 flowers, perhaps a few hints on its cultivation in pots may be acceptable to 

 those who have not hitherto adopted that mode of culture. I know of no 

 plant more useful or ornamental as a pot-plant, for decorating the greenhouse 

 during the summer season, when the proper inmates of that structure are en- 

 joying the open air. If we take into consideration its graceful habit, the 

 variety and brilliancy of its colors, which offer hues for every taste, and 

 above all, the lengthened period it continues to produce its lovely blossoms, it 

 is unrivaled and ought to be more generally grown in pots as specimens, more 

 especially now that the numerous varieties are so much improved, both in 

 form and color. The present season has been productive of some gems of 

 the first class ; and if the Verbena continues to be improved as it has been 

 during these few years past, I have no doubt that the time is not far distant 

 when it will form one of the leading features at our floral exhibitions. I do 

 not know if my system of propagating this favorite be new ; but as it is sim- 

 ple, certain, and expeditious, it may be as well to state how I proceed from 

 the commencement. I fill shallow pans (such as are used for placing under 

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