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ON THE PASSIFLORA. 
The Passion Flower, though not exactly a florist’s flower, 
is certainly deserving a notice in the Florist’s Journal, as well 
for its great beauty as for its docility in cultivation. This genus, 
in our opinion, offers very great inducement to the experimental 
cultivator, from the facility with which hybrids maybe obtained 
from it, a subject of the greatest interest to us, and one which 
we think well deserving the attention of every gardener. We 
are all well acquainted with the vast improvements that have 
been made in the class of flowers denominated florist’s flowers, 
and reasoning from analogy, why should not the same or similar 
improvement be extended to other plants and flowers with as 
great success as has attended the trial with those. Always keep¬ 
ing this in mind, we intend from time to time, as opportunity 
may occur, to present to the notice of our readers such plants or 
families of plants as may appear to us to offer the most rea¬ 
sonable chances of success; and with this view we begin our 
article on the passion flower. It has already been made to pro¬ 
duce one or two hybrids of the greatest beauty, well repaying 
the trifling trouble occasioned. Much, very much, may yet be 
done with this genus, not only in the improvement of the flowers 
but also towards acclimatizing some of the best varieties. It is 
the type of the order Passiflorese in the Jussiean system, and is 
placed in the class Monodelphia, order Pentandria, of that of 
Linneeus; it is so called on account of its being supposed to re¬ 
present in the appendages of the flower the passion of the Saviour. 
The genus consists entirely of climbers; some species are odo¬ 
riferous, others bear edible fruits, and all of them very handsome. 
We shall mention a few of the most prominent, first remarking 
that with only three or four exceptions they are all equally 
suitable ornaments either of the conservatory or of the stove, that 
is when grown solely as ornaments; but when grown for the 
fruit, which of many of the species is very delicious, or for the 
purpose of hybridizing, a stove or very warm greenhouse is ne¬ 
cessary. Most probably the latter would be found to answer, as 
they blow at a season when the greater number of plants are re- 
