feasor II ago run, perceived, ono evening a 
faint Hash of light dart repeatedly from a 
Marigold. Surprised at such an uncommon 
appearance, he resolved to examine it with 
attention ; and to be assured that it was no 
deception, he placed a man near him, with 
colored flowers — such as the the Sun¬ 
flower, Poppies, the Marigold, and the 
Orange Idly. 
Two interesting observations of such lu¬ 
minous flowers are thus described by Dr. 
Piiipson:— “ The Swedish naturalist, Pro¬ 
orders to make a signal when he observed 
the light. They both saw it constant ly at 
the same moment. Tho light was most 
brilliant on the marigolds, of an orange or 
flame color; but scarcely visible upon palp 
ones. The flash was frequently seen on tho 
same flower two 
or three times in 
quick succession, 
£/, but more com- 
monly at intor- 
va ' tJ Of several 
minutes. When 
several flowers,in 
the same place, 
omitted fchoir 
light together, it 
could bo seen at 
11 Considerable 
gf distance. This 
pj phenomenon was 
L remarked in July 
fc. and August, at 
■ aunsot, and for 
bnlf an hour, 
___—when the sky was 
° lf ' ar; bufc after 
!l ra,uy da 3'< or 
when the air was 
loaded with va- 
P°rs, nothing of 
<//>;>, was to be seen. 
' \ “ <bi tho 18th 
ot 1S57, 
' ' ^ about ten o’clock 
^ / In the evening, M. 
/ Th. JPbUSS, well- 
/ known Swedish 
/ botanist, while 
~ walking alone in 
the Hotunic Gar- 
yr" den at Upsal, re- 
/ marked a group 
of Poppies (Pa- 
paver orientate), 
1,1 which three or 
■\ ; n, v\ fou r 1 lowers cm it- 
tod bttlo flashes 
of »Kht. Fore- 
Yy Vv \ : warned as lie was 
\ - * • VSt \ » . 
W by a knowledge 
that such things 
\ had lieen observ- 
SZ . od by others, ho 
could not help be¬ 
lieving that ho 
was suffering 
V - Z from an optical 
illusion. Ilowev- 
, \^fe7 or the flashes cou- 
t’WXWi tinued, showing 
’vv I themselves from 
~M time to time dur- 
"ig three-quar- 
tors of an hour. 
M. Fries was 
thus forced to be¬ 
lieve what he saw 
was real. The 
next day, observ¬ 
ing the same phe¬ 
nomenon to re- 
\ cur at about tho 
cJjtorillultlU'Hl 
CLEMATIS LANUGINOSA 
In the IttTRAii New-Yorker, Nov. 30. 
page 315, wo gave 
an article on, and 
illustration of, 
one Variety of 
Ole m at is. We 
now present our 
readers with a 
beautiful engrav¬ 
ing of C. lanugi¬ 
nosa, well adapt¬ 
ed for training to 
walls or on trellis. 
It is recommend¬ 
ed to pruno it 
down annually to ^ — ' 
about three feet 
of the ground, so \ ■ 
as to secure foli- | 
age at tho base, 1 
since tho teuden- \ v 
cy of new growth \ ■'% 
is to develop it- \ 
self with exces- \, 
sivo vigor at tho \\ 
extremities. In \\ 
some localities 
the frost kills it V-ri"- 
baok sufllolontly V- Z 
without pruning. \ 
February is tho \ 
best time to 
pru no back when 
II Is to be done. / - 
With good, rich / 
soil to grow in, / 
i hey will make 8 / 
t o 10 feet growth / >V 
or more in a sea- / 
LIGHT FROM 
FLOWERS. 
A Young Swed¬ 
ish damsel, the 
daughter of the 
great LrNNAEUS, 
was fond of amus¬ 
ing herself in the 
Summer twilight 
by setting fire to 
the inllamable at¬ 
mosphere which 
envelopes the es¬ 
sential-oil glands 
of certain Frax- 
inncUce: and one 
sultry Summer 
evening when sea¬ 
ted in the gar¬ 
den, site was sur¬ 
prised to see lu¬ 
minous radia¬ 
tions emitted by 
flowers of a group 
of Nasturtiums; 
and she witness¬ 
ed tho same spec- 
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tacio on several 
subsequent, even¬ 
ings, in June and 
July, 170:1. Sev¬ 
eral naturalists 
have ob8erved the 
same phenome¬ 
non, and almost 
exclusively upon 
yellow or orange- 
conducted to tho 
place a person en- 
L i r o 1 y ignorant 
that such a man¬ 
ifestation of light 
had ever been 
witnessed in the 
vegetable world; 
and without rela- 
