Plate 371. 

 FUCHSIAS, LUSTRE and STARLIGHT. 



There oughi to be no more popular flower than the Fuch- 

 sia; the ease with which ii is cultivated, and the profuseness 

 of its bloom, entitle it to a first rank amongst the ornamental 

 plants for the conservatory and greenhouse; and yet, during 

 the past year, it has not received the attention it deserves, and 

 hence the number of novelties produced has not at all kept 

 pace with former years; the ensuing season will, however, we 

 hope, show that the love for Fuchsias lias not vanished. Mr. 

 Cannell, of Woolwich, will have, wc believe, some fine varieties 

 raised by our friend and neighbour Mr. Banks, of Sholden, to 

 let out ; Mr. Smith, of Tollington Nursery, has six varieties of 

 which lie thinks highly, and no one ought to he a better judge 

 of the Fuchsia than he, while Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, has the 

 two varieties figured in our Plate, which we think cannot fail 

 to he general favourites ; they will he exhibited in the coming 

 season. 



Lustre, the upper figure in the Plate, is a flower of great 

 substance, having a waxy white tube and very broad sepals, 

 elegantly reflexed, and meeting the tube; the tube is of a re 

 markable tint of colour, being almost an orange-vermilion, of 

 remarkable depth, and giving it a most solid appearance. Star- 

 light has a beautiful clear white tube, the sepals long and re- 

 flexed, but not curling up quite so much as in the preceding 

 variety, giving the flower a very graceful appearance; the co- 

 rolla is a beautiful clear rosy-carmine or lake, very novel and 

 distinct in appearance. Both of the flowers are well calculated 

 for exhibition purposes, their habit being verj good, and, owing 

 to the short-jointed character of the wood, they are very pro- 

 fuse bloomers. 



