kiiviEW. 163 



IS. SYMPHORICARPOS MONTANUS, MeunLuinSt. Pettr't Wort. [Botanitt. 



CAPRIFOLIACE/E. r-ENTAJSDRIA MO.NOGY.NIA. 



A hardy shrub, much branched, growing from five to six feet high, and 

 almost evergreen. It is a native of Mexico, found at the height of seven or 

 eight thousand feet. Symplioricarpo* from Sumphoreo to collect, and karpos 

 • iruit, from the berries being closely crowded together. 



REVIEW. 



A history and description of the different varieties of the Pansey, w 

 Heartsease now in cultivation in the British Gardens, illustrated with twenty- 

 four coloured figures of the choicest sorts, by I. Sinclair and J. Freeman. 

 London. May, 1837. Thirteen numbers of this neat little work have pre- 

 viously come out ; the fourteenth for May, 18S7 contains a figure of the 

 Ivor Hero Pansey. The engravings are on stone, and the colouring weli 

 executed. The number contains four pages of letter presss. The work is 

 very neatly executed, and well worth procuring. This very lovely tribe of 

 flowers demands the . attention of every person possessing a flower garden. 

 We grow at the Downham nursery, more than five hundred kinds, including 

 all the first rate flowers that are in the trade, and we are so enthusiastically 

 partial to the Pansey as to induce us to procure every superior kind that it 

 is in our power to do. We have drawings taken of several most splendid 

 seedlings, will which appear in subsequent numbers of the Cabinet, The 

 following judicious observations on raising seedlings are extracted from 

 the work under review : 



" As the season for raising seedlings is now approaching, we hope those 

 who wish to excel in this pleasing and interesting pursuit, and have a few 

 leisure hours to bestow upon it, will attend to the suggestions which we pre- 

 sume to offer. Their chances of success would be greatly increased, if they 

 would take the trouble to fertilize the flowers by an artificial process. And 

 this is properly the business of the amateur; for a nurseryman, whose at- 

 tention is distracted by so many occupations, has no time for such a pur- 

 pose, but must be content to leave it to nature to perform her own ofiices, or 

 trust to the insect tribe to carry the farina accidentally from one flower to 

 another. The stock of the amateur indeed, is better suited to this work, than 

 that of the nurseryman ; for though inferior in quantity, it is, or ought to be, 

 much more choice in quality, such as grow flowers for sale being obliged to 

 keep many sorts contrary to their own judgment, in order to gratify the taste, 

 or the want of it, of those who deal with them, 



We are not ignorant, however, that the task we recommend is both diffi- 

 cult and tedious. The plants are so low in their habit of growth, that a 

 person cannot work upon them without continual stooping, or even going 

 down upon his knees. We would advise those, who wish to try the experi- 

 ment, and to know the result of their practice, first to select six or eight of 

 the largest and best shaped flowers, and to put them into pots, in which 

 they could be removed into any convenient situation, and brought close to 

 the eye of the operator. Mark the flowers you intend to fertilize with a 

 small piece of matting or thread, tied loosely round each, so as not to inter- 

 fere with the flow of its juices, and keep a record of the different sorts with 

 which you have crossed them. If the operation is new to you, it will be as 

 well, previously, to dissect a few common flowers in different stages of their 

 growth, in order to become acquainted with their parts, and the different 

 symptoms of their maturity, When the flower begins to expand, you must 

 of course divest it of its male organs, or it would impregnate itself, and all 

 would be lost. This you would soon learn to do, if you would cut open 

 « few lower* when they are partially blown, and observe the five anther*, 



