THE VERBENA MELINDRES. 
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en the stem; by this means it will be about eighteen inches high, 
the bloom must be again cut off, and the plant kept in the green¬ 
house ; in the autumn it will put forth plenty of shoots from the top, 
and make a handsome bush, and will come into flower early in Feb¬ 
ruary or March, according to the heat in which it may have been 
kept. 
By this means I am enabled to gather mignionette for bouquets 
all the spring, and the same plants by being cut, send forth fresh 
shoots which flower all the summer. I hope I have not been tire¬ 
some in my directions, as my object is to be so clear, that I may be 
thoroughly understood by any gardener’s labourer. 
T. J. Knowlys. 
Heysham, June 1832. 
ARTICLE VI. 
TREATMENT OF THE VERBENA MELINDRES, &c. 
BY WM. THORN. 
I have lately received a packet of seeds brought by a friend from 
China, part of which, I now beg your acceptance of; but I regret 
that I cannot give you the names, as they are all written in the 
China characters. (They arrived quite safe, and return many thanks 
to our correspondent.) 
In reply to G. L. page 571, I had a very fine plant of the Verbena 
Melindres growing in the open border last summer, which was co¬ 
vered with a hand-glass through the winter; it is now very healthy 
and in full bloom : the hand-glass was occasionally taken off for a 
few hours in the middle of the day in mild weather, and it had no 
water but the rain which soaked to it from the outside of the glass. 
I was not so successful in my treatment of the Maurandia Barclay - 
ana ; about the end of November last, I cut down a very luxuriant 
plant, transplanted it from the border to a large pot, and kept it in 
doors with other green-house plants through the winter; it produced 
a few weak shoots in the spring, is now in a very sickly state, and I 
think will not survive long. Had it remained in the border, and 
been covered with a glass, it might now have been a healthy plant. 
Wm. Thorn. 
Oilstone House , near South Molton, Devon , ? 
June Uth, 1832. $ 
