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ON SUSPENDING PLANTS IN GREENHOUSES AND STOVES. 
Upon no other principles can we account for the unalterable character of the 
two members. The creative power is nothing more than the revelation of embryo 
buds already pie-existing ; all the other internal circulative action, with the assimi- 
lation of substances, are phenomena purely nutrimental. So far, we may presume, 
or theorize, with security ; but much, very much, of deep, and unapproachable 
mystery remains, as subjects for " admiration, the superlative of praise/' 
"We might enlarge, but must close with one other remark. Though we admit, 
and, indeed, insist on, the permanence of individual character in each member of a 
grafted plant, we must believe that power, luxuriance, or restriction of growth, 
is more or less regulated by the action of scion upon stock reciprocally. A 
wonderful instance may be cited in proof, which was observed late in the last 
month at Mr. Stewart's nursery, Salt-hill, near Slough, Bucks. A yellow labur- 
num had been grafted with what was supposed to be purple laburnum ; but the 
results have shown, that in all probability the scion was not true purple, but a 
hybrid from seed, beween purple and yellow ; for the head, after producing flowers 
of a kind of dingy puce-pink, has at length protruded two shoots of the true lilac 
variety, distinct from, but amidst the hybrids. But this is not all ; here and there 
a little twig with pure yellow flowers is discernible, and some of the individual 
flowers of the puce blossoms have half the carina, or one of the alee, plain yellow. 
The object altogether is singular and remarkable. 
ON SUSPENDING PLANTS IN GREENHOUSES 
AND STOVES. 
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However much the appearance of a plant-house is affected by the number of 
plants that are in flower, and whatever praise may be due to the practice of 
retaining specimens in frames, and only exhibiting them in a show-house while 
they are producing their blossoms, thus keeping up, in all the visitable parts of the 
collection, a constant display of inflorescence ; it is astonishing to those who have 
never before witnessed it, what an immense change can be effected in the aspect of 
a group, by judiciously varying the position and arrangement of the individual 
plants. We do not scruple to assert that, while the richest masses of bloom may 
be rendered tame and monotonous by being formally or improperly placed ; so, 
where there is the most palpable deficiency of flowers, a very interesting and 
agreeable effect may be produced by disposing them to advantage. 
Unvarying slopes of surface, rising from the front to the back, or from the sides 
to the centre, correctly characterize the mode in which plants are commonly 
arranged. And though modern taste has contrived to diversify and enliven these 
by altering the straight lines in which stages are usually built, and by elevating 
