Plate 234 . 
VARIEGATED VERBENA, POPULAR. 
The great favour with which variegated plants have been 
received during the past few years has led to the introduction 
of plants of nearly every tribe in cultivation, whether in the 
hardy, or half-hardy, or greenhouse section; to these the Japa¬ 
nese have largely contributed, while the vigilance of our home 
gardeners has led to the production of many others. Perhaps no 
greater proof of the extent to which this has gone can be ad¬ 
duced than by looking at the section in Mr. John Salter’s 
catalogue devoted to hardy variegated plants; in this list are 
enumerated about three hundred different varieties, and in it 
are Daisies, Chrysanthemums, Strawberries, Fuchsia, Wood 
Anemones, Ivies, Iris, Nettles, Phlox, Ribes, Yeronicas, etc. 
It is not surprising then, that with a flower so universally 
grown and admired as the Verbena is, there should have been 
a desire to obtain a good variegated-leaved form of it, and we 
believe that in more than one instance this has been done, 
but the character of the variegation has not been sufficiently 
permanent to make it of any value. Thus we remember seeing, 
with our friend and neighbour, Mr. Banks, of Sholden, a plant 
of Defiance , much variegated; after however propagating it for 
some time, he found that it was not constant, and so discarded 
it. The subject of our present Plate is in the possession of Mr. 
Wm. Bull, of King’s Road, Chelsea, the well-known introducer 
of new and rare plants; it is permanent in its markings, and 
when bedded out, the golden variegation of the leaves, with the 
brilliant scarlet of the flower, will tend to make it one of the 
most effective of our bedding plants. 
In a visit we paid lately to Mr. Bull’s establishment we saw 
this Verbena in course of propagation, and also some very inter- 
