276 FLORA HISTORICA. 



SCARLET FUCHSIA. Fuchsia Coccinea. 



Natural Order Myrtoide(2 : a Genus of the Octandria 

 Monogynia Class. 



** From the blooming* store 



Of these auspicious fields, may I unblam'd 



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- 

 Captain 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 green-house, and it is now found to be suf- 

 ficiently 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. 



