Plate 51. 
NEW YEKBENAS. 
Verbena (hybridaj . 
The varieties of Verbena are legion, and they are as popular 
as they are numerous; indeed, there are few more useful deco¬ 
rative subjects for the summer dower-garden. The varieties 
now cultivated have been obtained chiefly by the intermixture 
of V. tencrioides , Melindres , Tweedieana , and incisa, and of their 
progeny. The result, securing infinite variation and a great de¬ 
gree of perfection, has been to render cultivators so fastidious, 
that, of the new varieties plentifully produced every year, com¬ 
paratively few are thought to surpass those already obtained so 
as to secure a permanent or distinguished position. Those now 
represented are some of the best we have seen during the past 
season. 
The variety called Grand Eastern was raised by Mr. Culling- 
ford, of Woodbridge, Suffolk. It has been grown and exhibited 
by Messrs. J. Woods and Son, of that place, whose specimens 
we have figured; and it has been twice exhibited before the 
Royal Horticultural Society’s Floral Committee, and has re¬ 
ceived commendation from that body. The plant is of free 
and vigorous habit and a profuse bloomer, bearing very sweet- 
scented flowers, in broad flattish trusses, of nine or ten inches 
Plate 51.— Yeebexa (hybrida) :— 
Fig. 1. Gband Eastebh: flowers very large, pinkish-rose, deeper to¬ 
wards the eye, which is straw-coloured ; sweet-scented. 
Fig. 2. Nemesis: flowers well formed, rich rosy-scarlet, with close eye; 
truss compact. 
Fig. 3. Stbiata pebeecta : flowers bluish-lilac, the segments distinctly 
and evenly margined with white. 
Fig. 4. Faieest oe the Faib : flowers white, with small ring of pur¬ 
plish-rose around the close eye. 
