. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ^T^^ amazing length, and protrudeconsiderable quantities of theirpleasing blue flowers. Whollyunfit for training to the rafters ofa house, or along any flat con-tinuous surface, on account of thetenuity of its branches, and thedistance of its leaves, it shouldalways be attached to a trellis suchas that already mentioned, and thestems should be arranged prettyclose round it in a spiral thus, its fine clusters offlowers .stand out from the trellisat Messrs. Hendersons, and pro-duce a most delightful effect duringth
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ^T^^ amazing length, and protrudeconsiderable quantities of theirpleasing blue flowers. Whollyunfit for training to the rafters ofa house, or along any flat con-tinuous surface, on account of thetenuity of its branches, and thedistance of its leaves, it shouldalways be attached to a trellis suchas that already mentioned, and thestems should be arranged prettyclose round it in a spiral thus, its fine clusters offlowers .stand out from the trellisat Messrs. Hendersons, and pro-duce a most delightful effect duringthe months of Jlay, .June, and•July. The compost employed is acommon mixture of heath-mould, loam, and sand, well drained, and carefully watered. Cuttings of the younger shoot s appear to root freely. It is not known from what the term Marianthus is derived. Dr. Graham suggests that it is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, on account of the pure whiteness of the blossoms of the first-discovered species. The engraving given above will best illustrate its 249 OF GARDENING AS A SCIENCE. NO. XI.—ELECTRICITY. We have now arrived at tlie grand climax of our theory, at the main-spring ofall the great natural agencies, and it is with pleasure we recur to those paperson electricity, a series of which is in progress in the Magazine of DomesticEconomy. When we consider the agency of the ethereal fluid upon vegetable vitality, itwill soon appear that little or no reference will be made to the common experimentsof the lecturer. Our object is to prove that every leading phenomenon of life andgrowth is dependent upon one great principle, derived from the Sun; and the solitary example we shall seek in machinery will be cited to prove that there is nosuch things as a minus condition of the electric fluid ; and therefore that the termought to be abandoned, as inexpressive of facts. Electricity is described to be asubtile, impenetrable fluid, of prodigiously rapid motion and action, whic
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