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refreslied wit'a a spadeful of rotten dung 

 over the crown at the same time, to con- 

 tinue any number of years as a permanent 

 item in the planting. The true coccinea is 

 a taller-growing plant than virgata ; it 

 rises six feet, the other only four, and the 

 blooms are larger, and the liabit less pen- 

 dant. Conica and globosa, the latter a 

 most beautiful small-liower fuchsia, -well 

 known in all gardens, may be used in the 

 same way, and will grow stronger from 

 year to year. We must not leave fulgens 

 out of this catalogue of fuchsias for clumps ; 

 it is the most decided in character of all 

 the border kinds, and much better adapted 

 for bedding in masses than it has credit for. 

 Mike a row of fulge.is, and let there be in 

 front of it a silvery line of suitable height, 

 and what can surpass it for richness and 

 novelty of aspect ? The large herbaceous 

 leaves, the general predominance of the 

 ruddy stain in stems and midribs, and the 

 peculiarly livel}- colour of the flowers, are 

 excellences not to be slighted, simply be- 

 cause this is an old cottage ilower, alto- 

 gether unfit for the exliibition-table. The 

 way to do it is to take it up and stow the 

 plants away in boxes of sand till January ; 

 then to start them into growth, and propa- 

 gate by cuttings, and give good greenhouse 

 culture as for show fuchsias till May, and 

 then turn it out, when it will grow for the 

 rest of the season in a style quite surprising 

 to those who have ill-treated it hitherto, 

 because of its humble pretensions. 



But if our lawns and banks are to be 

 adorned with fuchsias, we may as well 

 liavo the very best that can be had. ' I 

 flowered a great many species and rare 

 varieties when preparing " Gai'den Fa- 

 vourites " for the press, and of these two 

 were figured in that work, viz , coryrabi- 

 flora and Toddiana, two of the most ex- 

 traordinary fuchsias we possess, as will be 

 seen by reference to p. 316 of that work. 

 Now, to make a grand boss of flowers on a 

 lawn, grow for the purpose a few of those 

 huge out-of-the-way tuchsias, and turn 

 them out into deep beds, consisting of half 

 yellow loam, a quarter part leaf-mould, 

 and the remaining quarter old manure 

 from a melon-bed, and you may beat the 

 madman who went up in a balloon without 

 realizing a sensation. If you cannot pro- 

 duce a sensation by this sort of practice, 

 assuredly there is an end of such pheno- 

 mena in gardening. The flowers of corym- 

 biflora are four inches in lengtli, the 

 tube measuring three and a-half inches, 

 and the corolla half an inch. The sepals, 

 rather more than half an inch long, reflex 

 completely back on the tube, and as the 

 flowerg fire produced in trusses of about 



eighteen or twenty each, the appearance of 

 the plant Avhen in bloom is altogether 

 unique. This fuchsia was raised by Mr. 

 Standisli, of Bagshot, from seed sent from 

 Cuzco, in Peru. The plant attains to a 

 height of six feet, and ought never to be 

 flowered at less than five feet, or its real 

 grandeur cannot be displaj'ed. Another 

 of these grand subjects is serratifolia multi- 

 flora, also from Peru, and a glorious thing 

 for a pillar in a conservatory to flower all 

 winter. This will also go six feet, and 

 produces a profusion of large vivid ver- 

 milion flowers. 



Keeping still away from the race of 

 florists' flowers, let me commend to your 

 notice tliat fine old fuchsia Gorallina, which 

 yoii may at any time see in fine trim at 

 the Crystal Palace and at Kew, but rarely 

 in any private collection. This and the 

 strong growing hybrids that make long 

 joints, large flowers, and that are nearly of 

 one colour, both tube and corolla, are 

 among the showiest and boldest for pyra- 

 mid masses on lawns, and for the centres of 

 beds of fuchsias. It is iitterly useless to 

 attempt to dwarf any of tliis class; they 

 may, indeed, be grown to any size, from a 

 foot high and upwards and to flower well, 

 but the style is too coarse, too bold, and 

 too sprawling for such treatment. Take 

 Clapton Hero, trim it up either in a regu- 

 lar series of long rods, live or six feet high 

 on straight stakes, or get a set of standards 

 regularly furnished in the fashion of um- 

 brellas, and then let its flowering shoots 

 hang as they please, and you have one of 

 the showiest of all large growing fuchsias 

 for open air uses. Eiccartoni is another 

 for the same purpose, or, as it is tremen- 

 dously hardy, it may be left out all winter 

 to grow as a border or wilderness bush, and 

 to furnish the best of all flower-sticks. 

 Nest in the same way, but not quite so 

 rampant in growth, is Madame Brieri, 

 which has a long tube of rosy crimson, 

 sepals semi-reflexed, corolla of the same 

 colour, a more perlect self than Alpha, and 

 quite as showy, though scarcely so full in 

 bloom. Here, as in Alpha, Clapton Hero, 

 Gorallina and others of the dashing out-door 

 class of fuchsias, there is an ample foliage 

 and a sturdy habit, and the plants should 

 he large to tell with their proper effect. 

 Now let us consider the florists' varieties 

 as bedders. 



Dark. 



Little Bopekp. — This is the truest bed- 

 ding fuchsia in existence. Foliage dense 

 and dark, short joints, plant very com- 

 pact, naturally branching in a graceful 

 manner, yet so sturdy as never to need 



