. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. hen we are ready to conclude the plantis changeable. The safest practice is, if itis desired to exclude all staminate plantsfrom the plantation,—when the plants arein fruit, carefully to take up all that are notwell and fully set with perfect fruit, takingcare at the same time that no other planta-tions are sufficiently near to admit inter-lopers, and that no accidental seedlings arepermitted to spring up and to grow. If thisis faithfully performed, I doubt not the ex-perimenter will be a thorough convert tothe doctrine that Strawb
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. hen we are ready to conclude the plantis changeable. The safest practice is, if itis desired to exclude all staminate plantsfrom the plantation,—when the plants arein fruit, carefully to take up all that are notwell and fully set with perfect fruit, takingcare at the same time that no other planta-tions are sufficiently near to admit inter-lopers, and that no accidental seedlings arepermitted to spring up and to grow. If thisis faithfully performed, I doubt not the ex-perimenter will be a thorough convert tothe doctrine that Strawberry plants are notchanged from perfect to pistilate, or stami-nate, by good or bad cultivation.* I hope, sir, that you will find sufficientpoi7U in the above remarks, to make anapology for the length of this article unne-cessary. A. H. Eenst. Spring Garden, near Cincinnati, Jan. Mth, 1847. * [This subject is now a mailer of such nice observation,Willi so many of our cultivators, that we trust the coming sea-son will decide it—Ed.] FUCHSIA MACRANTHA. 455. THE LARGE FLOWERED lUCHSIA—FUCHSIA MACRANTHA. FROM THE LONDON HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE. The Fuchsia is a very popular family ofplants, and though not a very extensive one,as compared with others we are are ac-quainted with, yet it comprehends very con-siderable variety, both in the flowers, andin the habit of growth of the species whichit contains. We are now looking at the ge-nus, botanically—as a family group of dis-tinct individual forms, called species. Flo-rists have intermixed these species, untilthey have given rise to an almost endlessnumber of varieties, some of which are in-deed very distinct and very handsome, butthe great majority are considered by manypersons to be very inferior in beauty to theoriginal kinds from which they were pro-duced. The great and prevailing faults ofthese varieties are their sameness and lame-ness of coloring, and their coarseness of tex-ture, which points—and they are blemishes—
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