Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants . ePlace, where it was grown in a pot and kept inthe greenhouse. About the month of June last,however, some plants were placed out in the openborder, and, being left to nature, trailed alongthe ground, matted together, and composed avery beautiful bed. This appears to us decidedlythe most congenial way of treating it. Wecannot with confidence state whether it is anannual, a biennial, or a perennial. It certainlyseems to be at least a biennial, and may pos-sibly prove an evergreen perennial or subsljrubbyplant. No doubt it can be mana
Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants . ePlace, where it was grown in a pot and kept inthe greenhouse. About the month of June last,however, some plants were placed out in the openborder, and, being left to nature, trailed alongthe ground, matted together, and composed avery beautiful bed. This appears to us decidedlythe most congenial way of treating it. Wecannot with confidence state whether it is anannual, a biennial, or a perennial. It certainlyseems to be at least a biennial, and may pos-sibly prove an evergreen perennial or subsljrubbyplant. No doubt it can be managed as , which is commonly regarded as abiennial, and seeds are saved each summer, to besown in autumn, and retained in pits through thewinter. We are obliged for our figure to and Osborne, of Fulham; in whosenursery it was taken last August. It is hardly necessary to add that thespecies is clothed with strong hairs, whichhave the stinging property peculiar to thgenus. Subjoined is a wood-cut representingits habit as a potted SCIENCE OF GARDENING. NO. I.—SEED OF PLANTS. The practice of impregnating flowers in order to produce varieties, lias, of late,been extensively adopted by florists and amateurs; but this is done solely for anobject of curiosity or gain, and is rarely investigated philosophically. Were ourhorticulturists aware of the astonishing phenomena which inevitably attend everyprocess of impregnation, their object Avould assume another form, and admirationthe superlative of praise would succeed to vain and unworthy emulation. In thelast edition of Lindleys Elements of Botany (1841), p. 56, there is a most beautifulwood-cut, descriptive of the processes of impregnation. Tv^e take the liberty toextract a few paiagraphs from the letter-press of the same page, to introduce someremarks which offer themselves as a necessary consequence. No. 466. Imprepiation is effected by contact between the pollen and thestigma. We need scarcely observ
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