CANNELLS’ FLORAL GUIDE, 1912, 
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Verbenas. 
BEDDING VARIETIES. 
Suitable for growing into Specimen ])lants lor the decoration of the Conservatory. 
Boule de Neige, one of the best white bedders ; nicely 
scented. 
Cannells’ Pink, deep pink, with distinct white eye ; 
good for pots or bedding, (id. each : 4/- per 
doz. 
Crimson King, bright crimson ; fine habit. Rooted 
cuttings, 8/- per 100. 
£llen Willmott, pink, with white eye ; a grand variety. 
4d. each ; 3/- per doz. 
King of Scarlets. 4d. each; 3/- per doz. 
Lovely Blue, verv light blue, very sweetly scented ; 
grand flower ; strong grower. 
Purple Queen, deep purple ; good constitution. 
Venosa, hardy kind, and for long ribbon borders for 
back row s is one of the best colours ; mauve- 
purple. (id. each ; 4/- per doz. 
Warley, handsome soft rich red, splendid large trn“=‘“S 
of bright flow-ers. Od. each ; 4/- per doz. 
Those not priced — Rooted cuttings, 1/3 per doz. ; post free, 1 /(i ; established in pots, 2/(i per doz. 
Special price per 100 and 1000 on application. 
Messrs. H. C. &■ Sons carried off the only Medal for Verbenas ever given by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
Veronicas. 
SHRUBBY VARIETIES— GENERAL COLLECTION. 
.A. very useful and ornamental group of small half-hardy evergreen shrubs, forming into luxuriant bushes, 
and ornamental both in fpliage .and flower. .Vs pot plants they are useful the whole year, and in the Autumn 
are amongst the prettiest of flowering shrubs ; planted out during the Summer and lifted on the approach of frost 
they will produce flowers for a long time. 
1 Andersoni, blue and white. 
27 Andersoni Variegata, for bedding. 6d. each ; 4/- 
doz. 
2 Adolar Herll. 
3 Blue Gem, light blue. 
6 Celestial, sky-blue. 
() Creme et Violet, flesh-pink and mauve. 
7 Decussata, blue. 
9 Faust, dark blue. 
10 Girdwoodiana, light blue. 
1 1 Hulkeana, creamy pink. 
12 Imperatrice, rich blue. 1/- 
14 Lyalli, light blue. 
19 Miniature, reddish violet. 
20 Purple Queen. 
21 Heine des Blanches, pure white. 
22 Rotundifolia, blue. I/- 
25 Salicifolia, light blue. 1/- 
2(i Traversi, white. 9d. and 1/- 
28 Vulcan. 
.All those not priced (id. each ; our selection, 5/- per doz. 
Violcis (Tufted pcinsies)- 
Many of these continue in bloom (even beneath the snow) all the winter ; and at the first few clays of 
sunshine they are a brilliant mass, and if planted in bands of colours like other ordinary bedding plants, in w-ell- 
manured, deeply-dug soil, they give a glare of colour from February to July. We grow acres; in the Spring 
they are a grand sight. 
Alex. Renton, bright rose ground, flaked with dark 
crimson. 3d. each ; 2/— per doz. 
Bethea, pure white, of large size and great substance, 
ightly rayed. 4d. each ; 3/- per doz. 
Butterfly, an immense flower, pure white, irregularly 
edged with deep rose ; upper petals rosy pink. 
4d. each ; 3/- per doz. 
Duchess of Argyll, large w'hite centre, with deep 
glossy purple edge. 4d. each ; 3/- per doz. 
Duke of Argyll, glossy purple, striped wdth beautiful 
rose ; an immense flower, of great substance, 
with yellow eye and white brows. 4d. each ; 
3/- per doz. 
General Baden-Powell, orange rayless self. 4d. each ; 
3/- per doz. 
Helen Smellie, pure white centre, without rays, dis- 
tinctly and evenly edged blue ; top petals 
same as under, (id. 
Henry Hamilton, deep violet centre, circled with 
lavender ; upper petals pale lavender. 4d. 
each ; 3/- per doz. 
Hugh Reid, rosy purple ; top petals a little lighter ; 
great size and perfect form. 6d. 
Isolde, bright yellow, with no rays ; large and extra 
fine ; strong grower of grand substance and very 
free. 4d. each ; 3/- per doz. 
James C. Erskine, beautiful fawn, shaded crimson- 
purple, yellow and gold ; immense size. 4d. 
each ; 3/- per doz. 
