Venus's Hair

Adiantum capillis veneris.

Venus's Looking-Glass

Spe-cularia speculum.

Venus's Navelwort

Ompha-lodes.

Vepris

Vepris obovata. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Peat, loam, and sand.

Veratum

Six species. Hardy herbaceous perennials. Division or seeds. Rich soil.

Verbascum

Sixty-four species. Chiefly hardy biennials, and a few herbaceous perennials. V. spinosum is a half-hardy evergreen shrub; V. hoe-morrhoidale, and V. pinnatifidum, are green-house biennials. Seeds; the perennials by division. Common soil.

Verbesina

Eight species. Greenhouse and hardy herbaceous perennials. V. boswallia. is a green-house annual, and V.atriplicifoliaan evergreen shrub. Division. Light rich soil.

Vernonia

Fifteen species. Hardy green-house and stove herbaceous perennials, and stove evergreen shrubs. I'. linearis is a stove annual. Seeds and young cuttings, and the herbaceous kinds by division. Light rich soil.

Veronica

Speedwell. One hundred and twenty-five species. Chiefly hardy herbaceous perennials. Some are deciduous trees and trailers, and a few evergreen shrubs and creepers. The green-house shrubs increase by cuttings. The hardy annuals by seeds. The herbaceous by division. Common soil suits them all.

Vervain

See Verbena.

Vesicaria

Nine species. Hardy and half-hardy annuals, biennials, herbaceous perennials, and evergreen shrubs. Seeds. Sandy loam.

Vestia

Vestia lycioides. Green-house deciduous shrub. Cuttings. Peat and loam.

Yii30rgia

Two species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Young cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.

Viburnum

Twenty-seven species and some varieties. Hardy deciduous and evergreen shrubs; a very few belong to the stove and green-house, and one or two are half-hardy. Layers or cuttings. Peat and loam; V. opulus is the Guelder Rose.

Vicia

Vetch. Seventy-seven species. Chiefly hardy annuals and climbing annuals or deciduous climbers. Seeds: and the few perennial kinds by division and seeds. Common soil.

Vieusseuxia

Eleven species. Green-house bulbous perennials. V. glaucopis is half-hardy. Offsets or seeds. Peat, loam, and sand.

Vigna

Vigna globea. Hardy training annual. Seeds. Common soil.

Viguiera

Two species. Stove herbaceous perennials. Cuttings. Sandy peat and loam.

Villarsia

Ten species. Hardy, half-hardy, green-house and stove aquatic and herbaceous perennials. Division or seed. Peat and sand; and the perennial, or marshy kinds, in pots placed in water.

Vilmorinia

Vilmorinia multijlora. Stove evergreen shrub. Seeds and cuttings. Loam, peat, and sand.

Viminaria

Two species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Light loam and peat.

Vinca

Periwinkle. Three species and several varieties. Hardy evergreen trailers. Division. Common soil.

Vine

Vitis vinifera. See Grape Vine.

Vine Bower

Clematis Viticella.

Vine Leek

Allium ampeloprasum.

Viola

Violet. Ninety-nine species. Chiefly hardy herbaceous perennials, annuals, deciduous and evergreen trailers, a few are half-hardy, and a few others belong to the green-house. The herbaceous kinds increase by division or seeds: the shrubs by cuttings. The annuals by seeds. Loam, peat, or leaf-mould, and sand suits them best.