THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JUNE 1st, 1846. 

 PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. EMBELLISHMENTS. 



Messrs. VEITCHS' NEW FUCHSIA. 



This new species of Fuchsia was discovered by Messrs. Veitchs' 

 collector, in Peru, about two hundred miles from Lima. It is sin- 

 gularly curious, but a handsome kind, producing a profusion of its 

 rose-coloured tubes, but destitute of petals. It is a noble looking 

 species, and well deserves a place in every collection of this very 

 popular and beautiful flowering tribe of plants. 



ARTICLE II. 



OBSERVATIONS ON SOILS. 



BY J. E. M. 



In the Cabinet for April I said, in the few hints then thrown out 

 to amateurs, that they were only prefatory to a few observations on 

 some of the leading principles on which plant cultivation should be 

 conducied. I now send you the first of these; and I may as well 

 state here, once for all, that these short papers are not meant to 

 satisfy inquiry, but merely to point in the direction in which we 

 think correct information will be found, viz., in the study of nature. 

 Our first will treat of soils ; a subject often brought before the 

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