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propagated from cuttings of their stout, hard-fleshed 
roots. 
The glory of this border would be well sustained 
from early June to the end of September, removal 
of exhausted flower spikes, and some nourishment 
in the form of liquid manure, with attention to 
staking of the taller sorts constituting the sum total 
of the demands upon time and attention. Where 
a whole border cannot be provided, room should 
certainly be made for a few clumps of some of these 
fine plants. 
Veronica. — The genus Veronica is a very large and 
varied one. In V. canescens we have one of the 
smallest plants in cultivation, its growth being just 
a fine film of hairy foliage nestling so closely to the 
ground that even the uneven surface of the soil is 
followed precisely, and over the lacy carpet of 
slender stems and leaves are distributed lilac-tinted 
blossoms on the shortest of slender stalks. In 
startling contrast to this little midget we turn to 
V. elliptica and V. Traversii, great shrubs that 
frequently attain a height of six feet and sometimes 
even eight feet, and between these two extremes it 
is easily possible to select a hundred perfectly 
distinct sorts, some trailing or prostrate, some 
reaching various heights from a couple of inches to 
several feet, some evergreen and shrubby, some 
truly herbaceous, some simulating the Club Mosses, 
some like small coniferse, and others almost like 
the Boxwood tree. In colours they run through 
