FUCHSIA GRACILIS. 
own F. Meleagris in its many forms and seedlings, standing high among 
the best of all; F. pallidiflora is of more stalwart stature, with beauti- 
ful solid white bells, freely produced from a bulb of good sound perennial 
temper; IF. lutea, of half a foot, has single golden flowers; F. aurea, 
of half the size, has half-sized golden bells; and catalogues will be 
your sufficient guide to such of the rest as may be for the moment 
available—so long as it is remembered that catalogues do not always 
emphasize the miffy temper of the prizes they proclaim; and that 
a nod ought to be as good as a wink to a blind gardener, accordingly, 
in the way of “should have sand” or “is best if planted early.” 
Not to mention—a fact which catalogues rarely do—that an enor- 
mous number of Fritillarias have more or less stinking bells of dingy 
chocolate and greenish tones, which often appear transfigured by the 
enthusiasm of those who desire to get rid of them, as “rich purple” 
or “ amaranthine violet.” 
Fuchsia gracilis and F. pumila, to say nothing of F. Ric- 
cartonit and several more, are quite hardy and most decorative for the 
rock-garden in warm soils and countries, the two first named being the 
best in dwarf size and dainty habit. And there are various garden 
forms and hybrids specially adapted to the rock-garden, and specially 
quoted for the purpose by catalogues. 
Funkia tardiflora is the only species we haye at present 
fitted in stature for our realm, where its delicate foot-high spires of 
lavender-pale lilylings in autumn have a fine effect; while all the 
summer through the huge foliage and the fine spikes of its larger 
cousins may well have been glorifying the edges of the pond in rich 
damp soil. 
G 
Galanthus.—Every beautiful Snowdrop—under which head we 
will not count the double ones—has its place on the outskirts and high 
ledges of the rock-garden, where their decorative values and their 
cultural needs are all so very much of a muchness that anyone, not a 
special specialist, can cater for his desires in catalogues. 
Galatella is so near Aster that the glorious Aster acris has some- 
times borne the name. But even more profuse in flower than this is 
G. davurica, bending beneath the weight of nearly a hundred ragged 
blue-violet stars, whose rays turn backwards in a manner most elegant 
and refined. It may be known, apart from these points, from the 
Aster by the fact that here the cup that holds the blossoms is hemi- 
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