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sure to come to grief with them before the winter is over. There is no 
excuse for this, for they strike most readily in the summer, and require 
but very little care; when planted out they only want looking to for 
awhile in pegging down, and then they may “ gang their ain gait.” 
Where one has only three or four beds to plant, of course any attempt 
to arrange them in colours is absurd, and one must either have a bed of 
one colour or else mixed beds; if you can be tolerably sure of having 
them of the same growth, then mix them, but it does not do very well to 
have a rampant grower and a moderate one side by side. I had one 
bed all scarlet this season, the others mixed, and I hardly know which 
was the prettier, but I think I prefer the latter ; and now as to sorts . 
Of old kinds I should recommend :— 
REDS OF VARIOUS SHADES. 
1. Defiance 
2. Brilliant de Vaise 
3. Geant des Batailles 
4. Jean Bart 
5. Crimson Perfection 
6. Pre-eminent 
7. Premier 
8. Admiral Dundas 
9. Lord Raglan. 
-10. John Edwards . 
11. General Simpson . 
12. Loveliness 
BLUES, LILACS 
1. Victory. 
2. Blue Bonnet 
3. Duke of Cambridge 
4. Ariosto 
5. Imperialis 
6. Field Marshal 
7. Standard Bearer 
WHITE. 
1. Jules-Paquin 
2. Mrs. D. Tysson 
3. Mrs. H. Williams 
4. Mrs. Holford .... 
5. Viscountess Emlyn 
STRIPED 
1. Eclipse. 
2. Sarah ..... 
- 3. Madame la Valliere . 
. orange scarlet 
orange scarlet, white eye 
. rich dark scarlet 
light scarlet 
. ruby crimson 
ruby red, white eye 
. deep rose, dark centre 
crimson scarlet 
. scarlet cerise 
crimson scarlet 
. carmine 
bright rosy pink 
MULBERRY, &c. 
. rosy purple, white centre 
. light blue 
. violet, white eye 
. mulberry 
. an improved Ariosto 
rich purple 
rich blue purple, white centre 
white, pink eye 
white, cream centre 
dwarf 
large, good white 
bright crimson eye 
white, and pink stripe 
white and lavender, striped 
white and lavender, mottled and 
striped 
I have the opportunity of observing in the garden of my friend and 
neighbour, Mr. Banks, —the successful raiser of Lord Raglan, Mrs. H. 
Williams, and others of the best Verbenas in growth—the new ones of 
the present year, and send a few notes, which may be of service to 
those who want to know what to buy; they comprise the cream of 
Turner’s, Smith’s, and Henderson’s lists. 
1. Evening Star, brilliant in colour, a cherry red, lemon eye, and most profuse 
bloomer 
2. Sir Joseph Paxton, rosy crimson. Some question as to its habit; one plant 
better in this respect than a second one I saw 
3. Celestial, an immense pink flower, but too coarse to please many 
