Plate 240 . 
VERBENAS, GEORGE TYE, CHARLES TURNER, 
AND QUEEN OE PINKS. 
It is extremely difficult when flowers have reached the per¬ 
fection that the Verbena has, to produce new varieties which 
shall be very decidedly in advance of the older ones: we must 
be contented if we can make a little progress, and either in 
colour, shape, habit, or size, strain a slight improvement, and 
perhaps there is no one more likely to effect this than Mr. C. 
J. Perry, of The Cedars, Castle Bromwich, near Birmingham, 
the raiser of the three varieties now figured. 
While adding so much by their continuous blooming and 
diversity of colour to the gaiety of the garden during the sum¬ 
mer months, no dependence in our variable climate can be 
placed on these out-of-door plants for blooms for exhibition—a 
slight shower of rain is quite sufficient to destroy all the beauty 
of the blossoms, and hence those fine and fresh-looking flowers 
which we see so constantly at the various exhibitions, are the 
produce of plants grown either in pots or in a frame,—we believe 
Mr. Perry’s plan is the latter. A common cucumber frame is 
filled with good compost, and the Verbenas are then planted 
out at regular intervals, abundance of room being given to 
them, and pegged down as they grow. Great care is needed 
against thrips and green-fly, and the frames must therefore he 
well fumigated from time to time as soon as ever there is the 
slightest indication of either ; indeed it is better to fumigate at 
regular intervals, on the ground that prevention is better than 
cure. 
George Tye (Fig. 1) is a large and finely-formed deep laven¬ 
der-coloured flower, with well rounded pips, and a large lemon- 
coloured eye. Charles Turner (Fig. 2) has been most favourably 
