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VER0NI'C4;S. 
SHRUBBY VARIETIES. 
* V | ~* VERY useful and ornamental group of small lialf-hardy evergreen shrubs, but in many 
ri places ]>erfectly hardy, especially in tlic south of England and near the coast, forming into 
• luxuriant bushes, and ornamental both in foliage and flower. As pot plants they are useful 
the whole year, and in the aiitunm arc amongst the prettiest of flowering shruhs ; planted out during 
the summer and lifted in the approach of fro.st they will produce flowers for a long time. 
12. IMP^RATRICE — Flowers rich blue; 
1. ANDERSONI — Large ample foliage, dark 
green, with spikes of blue and white flowers. I.v. 
2. ADOLAR HERLL — Beautiful colour; 
very line variety l.v. 
3. BLUE GEM — Very dwarf, free blooming 
variety : in fact it is almost perpetual. Flowers 
light blue small foliage, lit/, each; 3.v. per do/.. 
4. CLAUDINE. 
5. CELESTIAL — A very pleasing variety, 
the flowirs of a sky-blue colour, with white 
centres ; free and of go.al habit, l.s. 
(i. CREME ET VIOLET — Flant bushy; 
the flower.', which are produced in abundance, 
are of a flesh-pink, clear mauve at the base : the 
stamens project well, and are of a beautiful violet, 
thus making a ]irctty contrast with the delicate 
pink ; a splenilid varictv. 
7. DECUSSATA — Small box-like leaves, 
and spikes of blue flowers. 
8. DIOGENE. 
y. FAUST — Dark foliage, dark blue flowers ; 
habit dwarf l.v. 
10. GIRDWOODIANA— Flowers in summer, 
colour light lilue ; perfectly hardy. 
11. HULKEANA — Is more of a greenhouse 
variety,producitig spikes fully 18 inches in length; 
flowers of a creamy pink colour ; for pots and 
conservatory work one of the prettiest and finest 
varieties of this family, and for forcing one of the 
best plants in cultivation, l.v. each ; 7.v. per doss. 
pretty, l.v. 
14. LYALLI — Forming neat bushes, about 
y inches high, covered with light blue flowers iti 
summer, l.v. 
15. LA GLOIRE DE LORRAINE— A very 
fine variety; dwarf. l.v. 
IG. MADAME H. JACOTOT. 
17. MARIE ANTOINETTE— A free 
flowering pink. 
18. MADAME M. BOUCHARLAT. 
' ly. MINIATURE — Also resembles r. t/ecitv. 
siila in foliage, with very short clusters, but very 
numerous bright reddish violet flowers, l.v. 
20. MADAME TREZEL. 
21. MURILLO. 
22. ROTUNDIPOLIA — Very neat and 
bushy habit ; flowers blue. l.v. 
23. RUBRA SPLENDIDA. 
24. SOCRATE. 
2,5. SALICIPOLIA— The willow-leaved Ve- 
ronica ; foliage long and narrow, flowers light 
blue ; distinct, l.v. 
2G. TRAVERSI — Leaves resemble those of 
the Bo.x, flowers white in long spikes ; (piite 
hardv. '.)(/. and l.v. 
27; ANDERSONI VARIEGATA— A most 
beautiful plant for centre of beds ; the white is 
exceedingly effective, and, being half-hardy, it 
has a fine appearance in the autumn, l.v. 
All those not priced, (It/, each. 
Yi'olas, 
AND PANSIES WITH HABIT OF THE VIOLA. 
^ANY of these continue in bloom (even beneath the snow) all the winter; and at the first 
./> few days of sunshine they are a brilliant mass, and if planted in bands of colours like other 
IC..A3 orilinaiy bediling plants, in well-manured, deeply-dug soil, they give a glare of colour from 
February to ,Iuly. But how strange that, with the exception of a few that know bettor, the million 
will buy bulbs for bedding! — whereas Violas arc only a (piarter the ])ricc, more certain, continue 
ten times longer in flower, and produce thirty times the (juautity of bloom or colour, and are 
altogether better. 
NEW VIOLA OF 1887. 
CONTINUITY, or the ever-blooming Pansy — Colour purple, habit strong and wiry ; its 
effectiveness as a garden plant is wonderful : give it deeply dug .soil, and it is never without a hloom, 
even in the most severe weather, (jil. each ; .5.v. j.er do/.. 
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