1879.] 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Beautiful Fuchsias.— It is to be regretted 

 that persons do not oftener try their skill in grow- 

 ing fine specimens, as well as in having good 

 varieties. It is just here that true gardening 



small pot, and there is no reason why almost any 

 of our readers might not grow one at least nearly 

 as well. And yet how seldom do we see a fuchsia^, 

 grown that has more than a dozen flowers on 

 at one time ? The great want of the day is more- 

 skill put into the individual culture of pot flowers.. 



skill comes in. The Fuchsia above many things 

 is admirably adapted to make well grown speci- 

 mens, but how rarely do we see anything at all 

 creditable to culture about them. Annexed is a 

 specimen of a double white kind from the 

 Greenbrook and Paterson nurseries of Paterson , 

 N. J., by Mr. Wm. Grieves, in a comparatively 



Laxtanas.— It has always been a matter of 

 surprise that the Lantana has not been morfr 

 popular than it is in American gardens. Of one. 

 species, L.Camara there are now numerous vari- 

 eties of white, orange and crimson shades, and 

 fully as beautiful as the varieties of its near neigh- 

 bor the verbena. Small plants, struck in th& 



