debased. We strongly recommend all those who value this 
really beautiful and most singular genus, to abandon a pur- 
suit which has as yet led to few results of which good taste 
can approve, and to apply the same skill which they have 
used in spoiling Calceolarias to recovering the pure original 
races, to preserving them uncontaminated, and to increasing 
their native charms ; not by unnatural combinations, but by 
those well known methods by which the purity of a species 
may be maintained while its vigour, health and beauty are 
augmented. 
At least, if the genus must be the subject of hybridizing, 
let the intermixture be made with some reasonable attention 
to the only rules by which it is possible to arrive at a really 
desirable result. 
