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THE VERBENA AS A CLUMP PLANT. 
some who think the Metropolitan very 
arbitraiy, that there is nothing like fairness, 
unless there are persons who will carry out an 
object in spite of menaces and grumbling. 
Among the flowers we have seen up to this 
time are : — 
Samuel Girling. — Good outline. Young 
flowers inclined to quill, deep crimson, well up 
in the centre, and good eye, petals barely touch 
each other, but the flower is very promising. 
Raised at the Dane Croft Nursery, and named 
after the late owner. 
Jenny Lind. — A fancy flower of striking 
character, purple and white, petals rather 
long and ribbed, but the centre good and 
general form very fair, with colour that would 
carry through a dozen faults. Dane Croft 
Nursery. 
Shylock. — A very fine deep scarlet, good 
average outline, rather open, which gives it a 
coarse appearance; good useful looking flower. 
Queen of England. — Colour of Beauty of 
Sussex, but overgrown and therefore larger, 
eye silvery and rather loose in the state we 
have seen it, excellent outline ; upon the whole 
a showy flower. Dodds, Salisbury. 
Gem. — A tipped or edged flower, very 
pretty, about the stamp of Miss Vyse, Lady of 
the Lake, and some other light flowers, very 
showy, and the colour well displayed on all 
the petals. Oakly, Southampton. 
Nell Gtvynne. — Sulphury or primrose 
yellow, a little rosetty in the outline, sunk 
eye in the young state, plenty of petals, and it 
may come up useful. 
Belted Knight. — A curious mixture of 
yellow and salmon colour ; bold handsome 
looking fancy kind of flower, but flat in the 
centre. Keynes, Salisbury. 
"Walter Hilton. — Large bright orange 
colour, flat in the face, fairish outline, very 
double, grown too large, and very likely to be 
better if grown within a moderate compass. 
Keynes, Salisbury. 
Attraction. — An improvement on the 
Bedford Surprise, quite as richly shaded ; 
treacherous in the eye, good general form and 
plenty of stuff in it. Bunby, Stoke. 
Jenny Lind. — Yellow. 1847. Promising, 
no particular fault, general good form, and 
bright colour. 
Maid of Kent, 1847. — Every promise of 
a first-rate flower, in the way of Radziville, but 
with a rosy instead of a purple edging or tip. 
Bally of Erith. 
A Fuchsia called Globosa Carnea has been 
handed about, and being a large and graceful 
flower, with flesh coloured sepals and blood 
red corolla, it will have many admirers : the 
blooms hang upon very long footstalks, and it 
is unlike the thousand of the same colour. 
A second Fuchsia, a little like " One in the 
Ring," which has fully justified our character 
of it in the Garden Almanac, has been raised 
by the same grower ; the habit is pretty, and 
the flower much shorter, so that it forms a 
distinct variety ; it is to be called the Beauty 
of Chelmsford. 
A third is to be valued for its habit, which 
it is difficult to describe. It does not lollop 
over the pot like many, but grows upright, 
and its branches grow up first and turn over, 
so as to hang pendulous all round, like a 
fountain almost in outline ; the stems are 
wiry, the foliage small, and the plant altogether 
elegant. This is a red variety, and the most 
abundant bloomer. Mr. Turville, the raiser, 
had an idea of calling it the Fountain, but this 
was not settled. 
There were at the Chelsea Show a number 
of seedlings without any names to them ; 
some of them deserved a passing remark, but 
for want of something to distinguish them, we 
could take no notes. 
THE VERBENA AS A CLUMP PLANT. 
Nobody who has not seen this little flower 
in great profusion in beds and borders, can 
form a notion of its value as a clump plant ; 
but there are so many varieties of no value, 
and so many of bad habit, and of no describable 
colour, that before any one ventures to use it 
to a great extent, he ought to visit some nur- 
sery where it is grown in perfection, and to 
some extent. If there were no other flower 
for the borders and clumps, the verbena would, 
nevertheless, make a fine bed garden ; but it 
makes the finest groundwork in the world for 
all other beauties. There is nothing, how- 
ever, to compare with it for Dutch gardens, 
or small beds on grass, where a figure is at- 
tempted, because you may procure them of 
any height, from that of Melindres, which is 
the dwarf scarlet that creeps along the ground, 
rooting as it goes, and forming a brilliant car- 
pet of whatever figure may be designed for it, 
to the tall varieties, which grow pretty well two 
feet high, and are as profusely covered with 
bloom ; and besides this,there are pretty nearly 
all colours and shades. Those who intend to 
grow verbenas must have an eye to the object 
in view ; if it is simply to make an out-door 
garden look gay eight months out of the 
twelve, he may select dwarf bushy, and dwarf 
creeping varieties, with as many different 
bright colours as he can find ; if, on the other 
hand, he proposes to exhibit, and desires to 
cultivate only the best kinds, he must look out 
for the show kinds only, some of which are not 
of the best habit, though of the best formed 
flowers, and in selecting these he must appeal 
to the standard — round flowers,no notch, a large 
handsome close truss, bushy foliage, abundant 
