. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. cultural success or failure, that many of ourreaders must be making a special study oi may be of service to note that Profs. Farlow andTrelease have published a list of all known worksor papers treating of fungi, which must be of greatservice to these students, A New Race of Verbenas.—There was a timewhen it was believed that the proof of a plantbeing a true species was, that it would reproduceitself from seed—a variety would not. If likewould produce like it was in a true botanicalsense, a species. Again, it is assumed that if aseedling pro
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. cultural success or failure, that many of ourreaders must be making a special study oi may be of service to note that Profs. Farlow andTrelease have published a list of all known worksor papers treating of fungi, which must be of greatservice to these students, A New Race of Verbenas.—There was a timewhen it was believed that the proof of a plantbeing a true species was, that it would reproduceitself from seed—a variety would not. If likewould produce like it was in a true botanicalsense, a species. Again, it is assumed that if aseedling proves sterile, it may be a hybrid, underthe assumption that all hybrids are sterile. Thelast proposition is no more true than the first,but it still holds in some quarters, while the firsthas been generally abandoned. There are now somany races of plants known to be varieties re-producing from seed as truly as any good speciescould, that no one can doubt that there is nodifference between like producing like in eitherspecies or Verbena hybrida compacta nana. We have here a form of Verbena, that producesitself from seeds just as well as the original species,and yet differs in not having the running or creep-ing character of the ordinary Verbena, which, asall know, creeps and roots over the surface ofthe ground. It has lost its creeping character,and makes a dwarf compact bush. Mr. DavidSachs, the well known seedsman, of Ouedlinburg,tells us that this does not produce bush Verbenasin every case, but the few seedlings that do so arequite exceptional. 1887.] AND HORTICULTURIST. 375 Outside of its interest to science, the new racewill be very welcome to those who love Verbenasfor their own sakes. It makes a white bushymass, as closely set together as a mass of candy-tufts ; five inches is about the average height ofthese little bushes. Like all of the European pro-ductions of this character, it has had* to have anomen fashionable, which is Verbena hybridacompacta nana,
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