THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
June, 1845. 
ON THE PASSIFLORA. 
WITH AN ENGRAVING OF P. SCHRODERIANA. 
It will probably be in the recollection of our earlier subscribers, 
that in p. 111. Vol. III., when speaking of the Passion-flower, 
we took occasion to recommend the genus to the attention of 
those interested in the production of hybrids, as being easily 
operated on, and likely to yield a more than adequate return. 
What we then advised we took the first opportunity that offered, 
which was in the second season following, to put in practice, 
and now the pleasure is ours of showing the result. The 
accompanying figure is that of a seedling obtained from P . alata , 
impregnated with pollen from P. Loudonii; and the object we 
proposed when effecting the cross is most fully attained, the 
hybrid exhibiting an equi-distant affinity to both the species 
mentioned. In general appearance the resulting plant possesses 
much of the character of the former ; its leaves are of the same 
entire form, and the flowers, besides retaining the general out¬ 
line of those of the seed-bearing parent, are produced on short 
axillary peduncles, as are those of alata; while on the other 
hand, its relation to the contra-parent is evident in the rounded 
stems of the plant, its more compact manner of growing, and in 
the vivid tints of the bracts and corolla, thus amalgamating, as 
it were, the distinguishing features of either parent, and fortu¬ 
nately possessing an advantage over both in its copious habit 
of flowering. The blooms from which our drawing was taken 
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