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This is probably the most beautiful plant of the Tempe- 

 rate Flora of Mexico. It was originally met with by Mo^ino 

 and Sesse, two Spanish naturalists, authors of an unpublished 

 Flora Mexicana, and has very lately been introduced to this 

 country. The accompanying drawing was made from 

 plant in the possession of Mr. John Lee of Hammersmith. 



a 



whom the larg 



medal of the Horticultural Society of 



London 



meetings at the Society's house in Regent'Stre 



awarded upon his exhibiting it at one of the 



It is difficult 



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conceive any thing more brilliant than 



the appearance of this species, when 



<Joloured flowers are formed beneath the 

 Mexican sun • 



rich 

 infli 



ermilion- 



of a 



much heat and 

 fade, and the plant 



but if it is grown in a shaded situation, with 



ably 



the brip-ht 



no doubt 

 freely 



deprived of half its beauty. It 



prove a robust shrub of easy culture, growing 

 mixture of loam and peat in the green-house 



uttings of the young wood 



bell-glass on a moderate hot-bed 



strike freely in sand under 



It is probably about 



hardy as F, arborescens, and perhaps like that species not 

 enough so to stand the winter, or to flower well in the open 



border, but it will 



green 



and 



nly grow and flower freely in the 

 by no means impossible that it may 



succeed in the open air in good summers, 



sheltered 



This plant may serv( 

 Fuchsia is still able to 

 species, now for the firs't 



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warm 



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specimen of what the genus 



yield of novelty and beauty 



The 



^v , . , , figured, only forms one of 



^ that are quite able to rival it in appearance. I would 

 mlly direct the attentioji of those who have commercial 



habiting that part of 



South America 



ith Peru to the Fuch 



In the woods about Huassa-huassi and 



Miino ;« I.* 1 — "-v^«c «uijui. ixuassa-iiuassi an( 



ofn f ^'?"l'''-. are some of the most magnificent spe- 

 «as found by Mr. Mathews at Huamantanga. It would 



CO lector ,f he could only bring back alive five secies of 

 Fuchsm figured m the Flora Peruviana, not f. :..e/tiorthe 



in ^ 'r W. Hooker's 



f!!;llf ''f'^'/''^^'^,^ plate will be found in <. ^i 



mobt useiul books of the day), and some others. ^ 



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