THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
July 1 , 1841. 
RELATIONS BETWEEN PLANTS AND FLOWERS AND 
THEIR NATIVE CLIMATES. 
If there be any department of the delightful but extensive and 
varied subject of the culture of plants and flowers, upon which 
cultivators especially require instruction, it is the relations between 
them and their native climates ; and if there be any department 
upon which the existing journals afford less information than they 
do upon others, this is the one. From Lindley to Harrison, 
we find accounts of plants, and of individual modes of culture, 
right or wrong, as the case may happen to turn out; but re¬ 
specting the relations to which we allude, and which form the very 
essence of successful floriculture, when viewed in its proper ex¬ 
tent, not one word is said. The cause of this silence upon the 
most important part of their avowed subject would be worthy of 
investigation, if one were in possession of the data ; but as we 
neither possess this, nor have space to work out the investigation 
if we had, we must content ourselves by saying that the cause 
lies somewhere between ignorance of and incapacity for the sub¬ 
ject, and want of feeling of its merits ; and we must leave it to 
others to determine toward which extreme the truth approximates 
the more closely. 
Our attention has been drawn to the subject from the fact, that, 
ever since we offered a few remarks on the simpler parts of it, not 
a single month has elapsed in which we have not received one 
communication or more lamenting the sickliness or failure of 
favourite plants, and asking what is to be done in order to keep 
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