Plate 341. 



NEW VERBENAS. 



The Verbena has always been both a useful and an attractive flower ; useful in its 

 adaptability for bedding and exhibition purposes; and attractive, because so free of bloom, 

 so cheerful in appearance, and so charming in the great variety of colours the flowers 

 present. It is a flower that has been largely improved by the practical florist, and the work 

 of improvement has by no means come to a close. 



We are indebted to Mr. J. F. Mould, nurseryman, Pewsey, Wilts, for the opportunity of 

 figuring three varieties of a most promising batch of fine seedlings he raised some time since. 

 Mr. Mould is a well-known and successful exhibitor of Verbenas in the West of England, 

 both as specimens grown in pots and in the form of bunches of cut blooms ; and in raising 

 new varieties he has endeavoured to produce forms that would prove equally acceptable for 

 bedding as for exhibition purposes. Our readers can infer from Mr. Fitch's drawing Avhat 

 amount of success Mr. Mould has attained in the way of obtaining varieties with finely- 

 formed and charmingly coloured pips. Mr. C. Fletcher (No. 1) is very large and handsome, 

 brilliant scarlet-lake in colour, with a dark shading round the eye. Vandyke ( No. 2) is of a 

 fine tint of lake suffused with magenta ; with a magenta pink bar on the lower petals next 

 the eye. Cleopatra (No. 3) is of a pretty pink hue tinted with salmon, with a very bright 

 pink ring round the eye. All are of a fine form and substance. 



Plate 342. 

 PHALJfiNOPSIS VIOLACEA. 



In the Gardeners' Chronicle for August 24, 1878, Professor Eeichenbach observes that — 

 " Few plants took longer to get known than this, it having been described in the Plantce nova' 

 in Horto Bogoriensi eultee in a most unsatisfactory manner. It has been figured in the Flore 

 des Jardins du Royaume des Pays-Bas, but neither could it be understood by that figure. I 

 had but once seen a fresh flower by the kindness of Mr. Willinck, of Amsterdam ; it flowered 

 at Leyden in 1862 ; I do not know of its having flowered anywhere else. I have been 

 pleased to get just now the second European flower produced by a plant in the collection 

 of Mr. H. Williams, Esq., Treadrea, Cornwall." 



Later in the year this superb Phalamopsis flowered for the first time in the Royal 

 Exotic Nursery at Chelsea, and was exhibited by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons at the 

 meetiug of the Royal Horticultural Society on the loth of October. This plant is the subject 

 of our illustration, and is described by Professor Reichenbach as "a new variety, light lemon 

 yellow, with purplish inside at the base of lateral sepals, purplish in the middle part of lip, 

 with purplish base of column and orange side lacinire." It was sent from Singapore by 

 Mr. II. Gr. Muston, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens. 



