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VERBENA MELINDRES. 
Though this elegant plant has been cultivated in this country ever since that 
time, it is still complained of as being with difficulty kept through the winter. We 
are, therefore, induced to state our manner of management, which is attended with 
complete success. 
In spring, as soon as the plants have grown two or three inches, we take off the 
cuttings, always leaving the lower eye of young wood upon the plant to push again ; 
these cuttings, if planted in pots of light soil, not too thick, will be rooted in eight 
or ten days j they are then potted off into sixty-sized pots, and, when the weather 
permits, planted where they are to flower in the summer and autumn. 
The plants intended for the next season’s stock are allowed to remain in the 
small pots until the beginning of August, and are then potted into forty-eight- 
sized pots ; by this means they become strong-established plants before winter, and, 
if kept on an airy shelf in the greenhouse, in a dry cold frame, or any place where 
they will receive abundance of air, and be protected from severe frosts, this gem of 
the gardens will thrive and flower luxuriantly. 
The generic name is said to be derived from ferfaen , the Celtic name of the 
vervain. Melindres, according to Dr. Lindley, is the ff vernacular” appellation of 
this species in the province of Buenos Ayres. 
