Plates 525-526. 



FUCHSIAS— LEAH, UMPIRE, AND 

 STANDARD. 



Notwithstanding the neglect which the Fuchsia has met 

 with during the past few years, there are still some growers who 

 endeavour to maintain the position for it which for so long a 

 time it deservedly held. There are few plants which make so 

 gay an appearance in the conservatory in the later summer 

 months, while no difficulty in culture can be assigned as a reason 

 for not growing it. It is easy to obtain good plants, sym- 

 metrical in form and full of bloom in a few months, and where a 

 temperature of from 55° to 65° can be maintained with a moist 

 atmosphere, success is well nigh certain. Although everybody 

 who grows Fuchsias will not care to grow such plants as will 

 be suitable for exhibition, still the same sort of culture will 

 produce good plants anywhere. We would, therefore, recom- 

 mend a paper by Mr. H. Cannel, of Woolwich, appended to his 

 Floral Guide for 1871, as an admirable guide on the subject. 



The Fuchsias now figured are being sent out by Mr. Wm. 

 Bull, of King's Eoad, Chelsea, that indefatigable caterer ot 

 novelties of every kind. Leah (fig. 1) is one of the white tubed 

 varieties, the sepals are also white, very broad, while the corolla 

 is purplish-crimson, with a distinct broad margin of crimson. 

 Umpire (fig. 2) is a double Fuchsia, being large and with 

 very broad sepals of a deep glowing crimson; the corolla is intense 

 purplish-blue with distinct irregular stripes of crimson, and the 

 habit of the plant is excellent. Standard (fig. 3) is of an entirely 

 distinct type, the flowers are very long, measuring five inches, 

 the tube is narrow, and the sepals are of a bright rosy pink ; 

 the corolla is peculiar in colour, a kind of violet-purple, and 

 altogether it would be difficult to find a more novel flower. 

 These with several others are being distributed by Mr. Bull. 



