194 REMARKS ON THE LIME, OR LINDEN TREE. 



that the best results can be safely expected in future attempts as to 

 colours, but in form, where the flowers of both are of fine form, 

 those raised therefrom will certainly be good. As far as the majority 

 of my one year's experiments go, I find, in colour, the seedlings 

 partake more of the mother plant ; and, in form, that of the plant 

 from which the pollen was brought. 



The entire process, from first to last, has afforded me much grati- 

 fication, and those persons fond of flowers will derive pleasure in its 

 pursuit. The results of but a few years application to the system of 

 hybridizing has already added immense charms to the beauties of the 

 stove-greenhouse and flower garden, as well as to fruits, and the 

 process being now carried on in a far more extensive scale, in a few 

 years we shall, no doubt, have quite astonishing results to grace our 

 floral exhibitions, as well as domestic compartments. 



I recollect noticing some very strong objections to the process of 

 raising hybrid plants being inserted in a publication conducted by 

 the Editor of the Chronicle Newspaper, but, on a recent occasion, I 

 saw in that paper the very opposite is now taken, and it is as highly 

 applauded, so that the condemnation formerly given on florists for 

 their floral productions now attaches to another class, and practice 

 has triumped over theory, and the foolish customs of by gone days. 



ARTICLE V. 



REMARKS ON THE LIME, OR LINDEN TREE. 



BY FLO 11 A. 



— — " And the lime at dewy eve 

 Diffusing odours." Cowper. 



Fashion reigns over the toilet not with more arbitrary power than 

 she governs the trees of the pleasure garden. She even enters the 

 forest, declaring war against and levelling to the earth all such as are 

 not in favour with her court ; and as Caprice generally holds the 

 situation of prime minister to this tyrannical goddess, it is not sur- 

 prising that Folly should so often be employed as first marshal. 

 Reason, who is deemed a traitor by this government, finds his oppo- 

 sition too weak to oppose such a phalanx, and sees the lofty tree and 

 the lowly shrub alike rooted from our native woods, their antiquity 

 and utility no more availing themselves, than their beauty or singu- 

 larity influences the whimsical disposition of Fashion, who is thought 



