There seems to be a’ growing fashion at 
present of mingling flowers, and thus occa- 
sioning the production of mules among 
plants : it is questionable whether Botany, 
or even Horticulture, will derive advantage 
from this fancy, or whether any thing but 
mere confusion will be the result. It has 
been indeed pretended that skilful manage- 
ment is shortly to produce any thing which 
the operator may wish for, by the union of 
different plants ; but we should be apt to 
imagine that such chimerical notions, if let 
alone, can scarcely be long before they con- 
fute themselves. 
