VERBENA. 
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Oncidium flexuosum 
Lanceanum 
leucocliilum 
luridum 
ornithorhynchum 
Papilio 
pulvinatum 
pulchellumf 
triquetrumf 
Phajus albus 
bicolor 
Wallicliii 
Promensea Rollisonii 
Stapelliodes 
Rodriguezia planifolia 
Rodriguezia secunda 
Scutecaria Steelii 
Sobralia macrantha 
Sophronites cernuaf 
grandifloraf 
Stanhopia grandiflora* 
insignis guttata* 
Martiana bicolor* 
oculata vars* 
tigrina* 
Wardii* 
Trichopilia tortilis 
Zygopetalum crinitum 
Maclcayi 
rostratum 
Those marked * should be grown in baskets suspended from 
the roof of the house ; and those j~ will be found to succeed best 
on billets of wood also suspended ; the remainder may be potted. 
WEST KENT PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OF GARDENERS. 
The usual monthly meeting was held at the society’s room, 
Lewisham, when the following paper was read—on the Cultivation 
and Management of the Verbena—by Mr. Fry. 
Few plants deserve more attention as a truly useful ornamental 
summer-flowering plant than the one on which I am about to 
treat; the variety of pleasing colours in the flowers, their pro¬ 
fusion, and the length of time they continue to bloom, combined 
with their easy management, render them deservedly popular. 
In fact no garden, however limited its pleasure-ground depart¬ 
ment, can be considered complete where they are not seen to 
luxuriate. Within the space of a few years some rapid strides 
have been made with reference to their improvement in point 
of colour, size of the truss, and form of the individual flowers; 
yet, nevertheless, it requires some judgment in selecting those 
most worthy cultivation from the vast number thrust before us 
by the raisers. It will not do in the present day to purchase 
