224 FLORICULTURAL GLEANINGS. 



but what the poet Gray has said of buried genius is applicable to 

 many a fine flower raised in the country, where there are few to 

 record their merits and push them into celebrity. 



•' Full many a gem of purest ray serene 



The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear, 

 Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. 

 And waste its sweetness on the desert air.'' 



Gk.vy's Elegy. 

 Felton Bridge End, September 1st, 1842. 



ARTICLE III. 



ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON GRAFTING THE FUCHSIA. 



Having seen an article in the January Number of your very useful 

 Magazine upon grafting of Fuchsias by approach, and apparently 

 with success, so far as the experiment had then proceeded, I was, 

 this season, induced to make the experiment, which I did upon 

 several of that most beautiful ornament to our gardens. 



I am glad to be able to inform you that the trial has succeeded to 

 my most sanguine expectations, and that I have now growing, and in 

 flower, plants of F. riccartonia and F. fulgens upon the same stem ; 

 the effect is striking. Others that I have grafted are not as yet so 

 far advanced, but during the course of next summer I expect to have 

 fine strong plants. 



I have at present undergoing the experiment a plant of F. corym- 

 biflora upon fulgens which also promises to be successful : should it 

 be so, perhaps it may tend to check the most, I would almost add 

 loo, luxuriant growth of corymbifioia, which prevents it for any 

 length of time remaining an inmate of many conservatories, its 

 robust branches growing to such an unmanageable length. 



After the remarks that have already been made upon grafting the 

 Fuchsia you may not think this additional experiment worthy of 

 further notice. Should it be worthy of notice, I shall be glad to 

 have added another proof of the success of grafting Fuchsias, and 

 should I raise young plants from seed thus obtained, I, with much 

 pleasure, will forward to you an account of the result. 



September 12, 1842. 



[We feel much obliged by the present communication, and shall 

 be additionally so by future ones. We are persuaded that a very 

 singular distinction will be effected by grafting. — Conductor.] 



