Plate 139 . 
VERBENAS, ELOEA, ROSALIE, AND PURPLE 
EMPEROR. 
We had the opportunity last September of visiting the garden 
of our friend Mr. Millar, of Up way, near Dorchester,* and 
although the season was somewhat too advanced for rightly 
judging of the merit of Verbenas, yet we felt sure that the 
raisers of Colossus , Gazelle , Foxliunter , and other first-rate 
flowers must have something to reward us for our journey. In 
this we were not disappointed, and we carried off some blooms 
for our artist, three of which form the subject of our present 
Plate. 
Last season was not, as far as we have heard, a prolific one in 
new and good Verbenas. We saw but three that seemed to us 
of any great merit; these were: Lord Craven , raised by Messrs. 
Downie, Laird, and Laing, a flower likely to be useful as a 
good bedding variety; Lord Leigh (Perkins), a bright scarlet 
flower, of large size, with yellow eye and of excellent proper¬ 
ties ; and J Rugby Hero , a very attractive and full-sized variety; 
the colour a clear rosy-pink, with a crimson eye. This was 
raised by Mr. Treen, of the Victoria Nursery, Rugby, and is a 
striking flower in its class. They have all received first-class 
certificates, and have well merited it. We imagine that the 
scarcity has somewhat arisen from the difficulty of saving seed 
the year previous; and if it be so, we may hope to see a large 
number of seedlings next summer, for there never has been a 
more propitious time for seed-saving than last autumn was. It 
may, however, he stated that many new varieties never make 
their way up to London during the flowering-season; either 
* We refer our readers to an excellent paper by him in the ‘ Companion to 
the Floral Magazine ’ for this month. 
