GLADI'OLUS RAMO'SUS. 
BRANCHING CORN FLAG. 
Class. 
TRIANDRIA. 
Order. 
monogvnia. 
Natural Order. 
jridacea;, 
Hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Origin. 
2 feet. 
August. 
Perennial. 
Cultivated 
in 1844. 
No. 1187. 
The present fine variety, like the two preceding, 
which we have lately published, was furnished from 
the extensive collection of John Willmore, Esq., of 
Oldford ; and we have selected it for the purpose of 
introducing the consideration of another section of 
this family of splendid plants, as classified by Mr. 
Cole, and which we explained, under No. 1133. It 
will at once be perceived that the successful results 
in raising these fine plants have been wholly depen- 
dent on hybridisation. This, most of our readers 
are well aware, is the inoculation, as it is usually 
called, of one plant by another. We may just no- 
tice, for the information of the uninitiated, that to 
effect such purpose, the gardener conveys the pollen 
or powdery matter of one flower, to the stigma or 
summit of the pistil, which is the prolonged part of 
the seed-vessel, of another flower. The seed pro- 
duced from such inoculated seed-vessel may be ex- 
pected to produce a plant, partaking of some of the 
characters of each of those so employed. This, how- 
ever, is a game of hazard, for, although, we are 
allowed the privilege of employing means to effect 
improvements in natural productions, these changes 
