THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



MAY 1st, 1842. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



CAMELLIA JAPONICA, Var. (Mr. Lump's.) 

 Seedling. — This very beautiful variety has been raised, along with 

 numerous others not yet bloomed, by Mr. Lumby, Nurseryman, 

 Guernsey, who has plants of it now on sale. It is a very pretty 

 addition to tin's justly admired tribe of plants, and well deserves to be 

 in every select collection. A correspondent having forwarded us 

 an article on the Camellia, which is inserted in our present Number. 

 we deem it unnecessary, at present, to make any further remarks on 

 the treatment, &c, but in a future Number we shall give a descriptive 

 list and mode of treatment. 



FUCHSIA RADICANS. (Rooting Fuchsia.) 



This very singular and pretty species was discovered on the Organ 

 Mountains, and introduced into this country by John Miers, Esq. 

 That gentlemiin gives the following account of it, viz., that he met 

 with it, in 1829, clinging in long festoons from a tall tree, and having 

 a profusion of brilliant flowers. On a subsequent visit, a cutting was 

 taken and brought home ; it struck root, and four years elapsed before 

 it bloomed. The principal stem is now eighteen feet high, with 

 many others nearly as long. In its native situation it grew at an 

 elevation of 3000 feet, where at night the temperature is frequently as 

 low as 35° to 45° Fahrenheit. 



Although Mr. Miers's plant did not bloom till it had attained the 

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