THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



APRIL 1st, 1S44. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



FUCHSIA CONSTELLATION. Var. CLUSTER-FLOWERED. 

 Onagrace;e. Octandria Monogynia. 



A person possessing extensive knowledge, almost unbounded wealth, 

 having every facility and opportunity to gratify the sight, has stated 

 " the eye is never satisfied with seeing." In order to provide variety 

 and beauty to meet desire, gigantic powers of mind have been skil- 

 fully engaged in ingenuity in every varied form which art and device 

 could accomplish, to the production of objects to gratify the sense of 

 vision ; but after all that has been accomplished in other things, the 

 works of God, as displayed in what are usually termed the " pro- 

 ductions of nature," infinitely exceed them all in number, perfection, 

 and beauty; and to a person of a contemplative and admiring mind, 

 which every real florist possesses, there is nothing terrestrial so ele- 

 vating to our ideas of beauty as the subject of flowers ; and of all 

 rational amusements the cultivation of plants is not only the most 

 rational, pleasing, and .; interesting, but is unequalled in providing 

 suitable objects to gratify and delight the sight of man. 



For a considerable number of years the Florists of Great Britain 

 and Holland have been enjoying the luxury of raising innumerable 

 varieties of what are technically termed florists' flowers, as Tulips, 

 Hyacinths, Ranunculuses, Carnations, Pinks, Picotees, Polyanthus, 

 Auriculas, &c. ; but during the last twenty years, and more especially 

 the recent portion of that period, many cultivators of other classes of 

 plants, as Camellias, Azaleas, Fuchsias, Calceolarias, Cinerarias, Te- 



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