: 2 
ee 
rucusia. 5 ———sQ17 
FURZE. 
first point is toselect a healthy young 
plant that has a strong leader, and 
taking it into»a forcing house, to 
remove its lateral branches and 
leaves to about half its height. The 
plant must then be kept constantly 
growing for two years, till it has 
attained the required height ; during 
which peried it must be frequently 
shifted into larger and larger pots; 
the lateral shoots and leaves must 
be taken off as fast as they appear. 
When the plant has acquired the 
height of eight or ten feet, it may 
be suffered to have a little rest ; that 
is, it may be taken out of the hot- 
house, and placed in a greenhouse, 
when it will lose its leaves, and cease 
growing; for it must be observed, 
that while kept constantly growing 
by heat and moisture in the hothouse, 
it will retain its leaves during winter, 
contrary to the usual habits of the 
genus. The following spring, when 
the plant begins to grow, the top 
should be pinched off, when it will, 
in the course of a few months, pro. 
duce a beautiful head, covered with 
flowers ; and in this state, if set in 
the centre of a bed of Fuchsias on 
a lawn, or in a flower-garden, it will 
have a very pleasing effect. F. 
fulgens is a tuberous-rocted species, 
with herbaceous stems, which natu- 
rally die off after the plant has pro- 
duced its seeds. When this is the 
case the root requires to be kept quite 
iry till the following spring, when 
st may be brought forward by putting 
it into a hothouse or plunging it 
into a hotbed. Young cuttings of 
this species strike as freely as any 
_of the other sorts ; but they require 
care, as they are liable to damp off. 
In some cases, a single leaf has 
struck, the roots proceeding from 
the thickened part at the base of the 
petiole. F. arboréscens forms, in 
its native country, a handsome low 
tree; but in England it proves much 
more tender than the other species, 
and succeeds best in the stove, where 
19 
| it deserves a place on account of its 
fine foliage, and its terminal heads 
of lilach flowers. It grows very freely 
from cuttings, which often attain the 
height of five or six feet in one year. 
F. discolor is a very hardy species, 
a native of Port Famine, near the 
Straits of Magellan, but it is not 
very handsome, from the dingy co- 
lour of its flowers. F’. coccinea is 
interesting from having been the 
first Fuchsia grown in England, and 
the only one known in this country 
for many years ; it having been in- 
troduced in 1788 ; while the oldest 
of the others (F. gracilis) was not 
introduced till 1823. F. coccinea 
should be kept in the greenhouse. 
All the Fuchsias hybridize freely 
with each other, and vary very 
much from the seed, which most of. 
the kinds ripen every year. The 
fruit is a dark purple berry, which 
when ripe is eatable. Among the 
new Fuchsias may be mentioned, 
F. corymbifolia, which is nearly 
hardy; FF. eximia and F. radicans. 
a creeping or climbing plant like the 
Ivy, besides innumerable hybrids. 
Foma‘ria.— Fumaridcee.—Pretty 
little plants with curiously shaped 
flowers, which grow best on calcare- 
ous or sandy soils. The annual kinds 
should be sown with other annuals in 
March, April, or May ; and the peren- 
nial species are increased by division 
of the root. Some of the kinds are now 
called Corydalis, and some Dielytra. 
Fumitory.—See Fuma\ria. 
Fu'nx1a. — Hemerocalliddcee. — 
The Japan Day-lily. Bulbous-rooted 
plants that were formerly consider- 
ed to belong to the genus Hemero- 
eallis. ‘They are natives of China 
and Japan, and are grown in the 
open airin England. F. cerilea is 
quite hardy, and will grow anywhere, 
but F. alba requires a warm dry bor- 
der, as do the newly introduced spe- 
cies. They are all very ornamental, 
and some of them are fragrant. 
Fourzr.—See U'iex. 
WC) 
