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seed they can collect, good and bad together, and perhaps partly 
owing to our not being acquainted with the best means of raising 
them. We also had seeds of Martynia fragrans in the spring, 
which have not vegetated, though they are still sound, and they 
have been in the earth all the summer. The subject of the latter 
part of your letter has engaged our attention for some time, but 
we were fearful of a charge of plagiarism ; however, we will see 
if it can be effected. 
Mr. W. J. Epps. — We have an aversion to an opinion founded 
only on a single bloom, but if, as you say, the plant possesses a 
fine habit and is an abundant bloomer, the Fuchsia sent will be 
an acquisition. It is large without being coarse, tube propor¬ 
tionate and smooth; sepals broad and apparently reflexed, 
though somewhat crushed; carmine tipped with green. By 
being kept in an exposed northern-aspected situation, it is 
doubtless of a darker colour than may be natural to it; and we 
are inclined to think, if the colour of this portion of the flower is 
generally of a lighter shade, it must afford a better contrast to 
the rich violet crimson of the petals. We should like to see it 
when grown under more favourable circumstances. 
Desire Gosset, Abbeville. — If you will explain your wishes 
a little more fully, we will endeavour to meet them. 
Querist. — Yes, Fuchsias maybe grafted with ease and cer¬ 
tainty as soon as wood of the current year’s growth can be ob¬ 
tained about half ripened ; we should say June and July are the 
best months for the operation; it is performed in the usual 
way. 
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Didynamia Angiospermia.— Gesneracece. 
Gloxinia digitaliflora. This beautiful and distinct species is 
of very recent introduction. It is no doubt of Mexican or 
South American origin, though we have no information as to its 
exact native locality. 
It belongs to the caulescent part of the genus, producing 
stems from six to nine inches in height, with the flowers so 
closely arranged as almost to cluster at the top of them ; from 
other allied species it is easily known by its short somewhat 
roundish and very thick leathery, yet firm and rigid foliage, 
which is borne in opposite pairs with scarcely any stalk, and 
b y its particularly long and small-tubed flowers: the latter, 
too, have an unusually regular limb, which is of a rich purplish 
