254 FLORA HISTORICA. 



SCARLET FUCHSIA. Fuchsia Coccinea, 



Natural Order Myrioidece. A Genus of the Octandria 

 Monogynia Class. 



From the Uooming store 



Of these auspicious fields, may I unblamed 



Transplant some living blossoms, to adorn 



My native clime. 



Akenside. 



This beautiful exotic plant is a native of Chili, 

 and although it has now become familiar to most 

 parts of Europe, it was unknown to the old world 

 until the year 1788, when it was presented by Cap- 

 tain Firth to the Royal Garden at Kew, from 

 whence it was soon afterwards distributed as a 

 stove plant. From the stove it was removed to the 

 greenhouse, and it is now found to be sufficiently 

 hardy to stand the open garden, if planted in warm 

 situations, where it is sheltered from the north by a 

 wall or buildings ; and, like the China Roses, 

 which were for some years treated as a tender 

 plant, the Fuchsia is found to grow with greater 

 luxuriance in the open air, than when nursed as a 

 house plant. 



Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, was the first of our 

 nurserymen who had this plant for sale, which, 



