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. 



