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"VERBENA. 
everything we see advertised in the horticultural journals, for 
if we do we may most assuredly expect to meet with disappoint¬ 
ment, having myself given five shillings for plants not worth the 
room they have occupied. Thus it proves to one the wise 
policy of having, as it were, ocular demonstration previous to 
making a purchase. 
The varieties we have in cultivation differ materially as to their 
habit and mode of growth, where there is one that is well 
adapted for grouping in geometrical flower-gardens, we have ten 
of the opposite ; so that as a matter of course our object should 
be to select those the most suitable to the purpose for which 
they are intended. 
It so happens that the more delicate growing sorts are 
amongst the very best for systematical arrangement, both as 
regards colour and habit; in a collection this ought to be par¬ 
ticularly attended to, for unless they are judiciously arranged, 
the desired object is not obtained, but completely lost, the whole 
assuming an unsightly appearance rather than a pleasing effect. 
Such as the following, in my opinion, may be classed with the 
very best for bedding. 
Atrosanguinea, rich blood red; Ignea, very bright scarlet; 
Duchess of Sutherland, blush, deep rose spot; Favourite (Miller’s) 
bright rose (good) ; Emperor, crimson, clear white eye; Emma, 
rich purple; Merry Monarch, scarlet, rose margin; Giant, laven¬ 
der, strong grower; Boule de Feu, brilliant orange scarlet; 
Tricolor Alba, rather a strong grower; Amethystina, blue laven¬ 
der, rather delicate; Avalanche, Princess Royal, and Queen, are 
all good whites; Ingramii, rose, with dark centre ; Rose d’Amour, 
fine deep rose ; Hendersonii, dark ; Wonder of Scarlets, perhaps 
the best of deep scarlets ; Josephine Beauharnaise, fine blue. 
There are others perhaps equally as good as the above, indeed 
some of their trusses may be finer (for instance, " Beaute 
Supreme” when in good condition), but are too rambling in 
habit to form nice compact beds of bloom in a well-arranged 
flower-garden. Where they are grown for exhibition, many I 
have not enumerated will be found indispensably necessary, and 
which may be grown in the borders singly; I would here observe 
that where “ Verbenas” are shown they ought to be exhibited as 
single trusses of "bloom, and not bunched up like a bouquet, as 
