292 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



A. Wardleiana is nothing more nor less than the true Hender- 

 soni, which was brought into disrepute through a large number of 

 A. Schotti being, from some unexplained cause, sold for it. It is a 

 native of New Grenada. 



A. nobilis. — The description of this beautiful acquisition will be 

 found at the beginning of this paper. 



A. Schotti. — This is a good strong-growing species, bearing its 

 large waxy golden yellow flowers rather freely, but it is not wanted 

 in small collections of stove plants where A. FLendersoni is grown. 

 It is, however, too good to discard altogether. S. H. 



HARDY FUCHSIAS. 



BY W. CHITTT, 

 Florist, Stamford Hill, N". 



jHE other day I was in an old and rather neglected garden, 

 and was much struck with the beauty of some fine 

 old specimens of Fuchsia virgata, several of them being 

 six feet high, and as much through, and studded as they 

 were with thousands of flowers, they had a very showy 

 and beautiful appearance. I have always been an admirer of this 

 fuchsia, and also of two or three others of its congeners, and have 

 made a point of advocating their more extended culture wherever 

 practicable. When once these old varieties are planted out, they 

 give no further trouble to the cultivator beyond thinning out the 

 shoots in the spring, aDd even if they do not receive this attention, 

 they will do very well, as some of the shoots are sure to take the 

 lead, and form a fine vigorous bush. !No plants in cultivation are 

 more useful for planting in out-of-the-way places, such as on the 

 borders of a walk round a paddock, or the margins of shrubberies, 

 than Fuchsia virgata, F. Riccartoni, F. gracilis, F. inacrostemma, and 

 F. Thomsonii. All are of erect growth, and form dense bushes, with 

 thousands of blossoms throughout the months of autumn. F. 

 corallina is equally as hardy as the above, and will remain out j T ear 

 after year, and make vigorous growth, and flower abundantly. Its 

 habit is. however, decumbent, and requires the support of a stake to 

 enable it to display its beauty. F. glohosa makes a very neat and 

 attractive little bush, but does not attain the size of any of the 

 preceding. 



I have now lying before me the first volume of the " Floricul- 

 tural Cabinet " (1S33), and at page 7, an en husiastic admirer 

 of these plants, after describing his mode of ^propagating, etc., 

 says : — 



" If the summer be droughty, I attend well to watering at the 

 roots, and as I have abundance of manure water which drains from 

 the farmyard, I occasionally w r ater them copiously with that. In 

 the autumn I cover the roots with old tanner's bark, or a half-rotten 

 sort of manure, to the depth of six inches, and place a layer of soil 



