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blossoms from the lowest lateral to the summit, as to appear a pyramid of bloom. | 
Several other larger plants, procured from the same sources, resembled both parents I 
in figure and foliage, but they did not exhibit bloom. 
The process of this impregnation is very simple. Fulgens is chosen as the male, 
its farina being ready and abundant, nearly as soon as the flower opens ; whereas 
glohosa exhibits its conical projecting stigma several days before the anthers burst 
and show the few grains of pollen which they contain. 
Whenever, therefore, any blossoms of those two plants are open at the same 
time, glohosa may be brought into contact with fulgens^ so that its stigma touch the 
anthers of the latter and become covered with their farina. "When the berries swell 
and become ripe, the seeds should be sown almost immediately ; and from these will 
be produced new varieties, which will exhibit unequivocal proof of the active energy 
of the farina. Of the curious phenomena connected with this great physiological 
fact more may be written hereafter. 
It is said that no two plants will hybridize unless the relationship be precise : 
we therefore allude to the impregnation of F. glohosa by fulgens in order to give 
every advantage to those who differ from us in our opinion concerning the identity 
of fulgens ; but in the mean time we do not cede to any authority, merely as such, 
and therefore contend that it is the 'peculiarity of the affinity existing between two 
plants, and not the mere proximity, which governs and operates the process of 
fertilising impregnation. The pear and the apple, though of one and the same genus, 
{Pyrus^) are mutually inert, and many single ji^er/'^c^ flowers fail to become fruitful by 
their own farina unless that be artificially applied ; hence we dare not hazard any 
strong opinion concerning the exact nature or extent of affinities from the results of 
impregnation, and the simple bald fact that some known Fuchsias can be suc- 
cessfully crossed with fulgens^ cannot, in our judgment, reconcile those manifest 
discrepancies which seem unerringly to indicate the necessity of removing it from 
Fuchsia^ and to make it the first of a new genus. Why not assume the name of 
the botanist who introduced fulgens^ and add Fuchsioides as the specific title ? 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS FIGCRED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
AUGUST. 
Aquilegia GLAi^CA. An elegant East Indian Columbine, found, however, on 
elevated parts of the Himalaya mountains, and in Cashmere, so that it is quite 
hardy in our gardens. It grows from one to two feet in height, has very glaucous 
leaves, slightly hairy stems, and large solitary yellowish white flowers, which 
expand in May and June, and are most deliciously scented. It is allied to 
A. fragrans, another new species from the same region, " which has, however, the 
spurs of the petals hooked inwards, and nothing of the glaucous colour so conspicuous 
