Verbena Seedlings vary 
or they will make rank foliage that hides the 
bloom. They last well as cut flowers. T. 
lobbianum and the small-growing double kinds 
which are usually propagated by cuttings are 
useful plants in the greenhouse. T. adnuncum 
is the pretty Canary Creeper ; a vigorous climber 
with bright pale yellow, fringed bloom. 
Verbascum (Mullein) ; hardy biennial. — Of 
these stately plants the finest is V. olympicum, 
7 to io feet high, with enormous candelabrum- 
like branching spikes of pale yellow bloom. 
It is classed as a biennial, but the plant may be 
anything from two to four years old before 
flowering ; meanwhile the great rosette of grey 
leaves is a fine object. The next in importance 
is V. phlomoides, of nearly the same height, also 
with pale yellow flowers, the individual blooms 
larger, but the whole spike more upright. It is 
much finer when sown where it is to bloom 
without being transplanted. 
Verbena. — If a trustworthy strain of seed 
can be obtained, this charming flower, treated 
as a half-hardy annual, is all the stronger, but 
seedlings vary much in colour and only a pro- 
portion of true plants can be expected in a batch. 
The named kinds are usually potted up for the 
winter for cuttings to be taken in spring. Seed 
should be sown in heat in J anuary or quite early 
in February, the seedlings pricked off into pots, 
and given a further shift as they grow. 
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