4 FUCHSIA CORYMBIFLORA. 



may be bent down to the ground ; tongue them as done to a carnation, 

 and peg the branch down to some fine soil ; in a month tbe young 

 twigs will be found well rooted, and may be potted. Such bloom 

 finely in autumn and often through winter. 



Although the F. fulgens will survive and bloom when grown alto- 

 gether in the open air, yet it does not do so well as when grown in a 

 pot for one year ; and having the wood well ripened, turn it out en- 

 tire into tbe bed in May, the plant then blooms much superior to 

 being grown in a pot. Each following November it should be taken 

 up, be preserved in a greenhouse or cool pit, through winter, and 

 planted out the following May. We have seen young plants 

 turned out in Mav ; they bloomed one raceme of flowers each, but 

 the wood not ripening in the open air, they died down to the ground 

 during winter, though taken up and kept in a greenhouse ; but when 

 a plant is grown in a pot and becomes woody by being well ripened, 

 it survives the winter, and is prepared to be one of the greatest or- 

 naments to the flower garden. 



By impregnating the previous kinds of Fuchsias with the farina 

 of F. fulgens, many very interesting kinds have been obtained, the 

 plants possessing the shrubby habit of the former, whilst the flowers 

 had a greater affinity to those of the latter. We have seen many 

 plants raised from seed saved from F. fulgens, but not one when 

 bloomed had distinction enough to recommend it. 



Of all the kinds that have come under our notice, the one we give 

 a figure of in our present number stands the most^ superior. It was 

 raised from seed by Mr. John Standish, nurseryman, of Bagshot, to 

 whom we are also indebted for F. Standishii, figured in our number 

 for January, 1S40. Mr. Standish informs us that seeds were for- 

 warded to him by a friend residing at Montreal in Canada, who had 

 received them from Cuscu in Peru. It is described, in the Flora 

 Peruviana, as a splendid species, of upright growth, attaining the 

 height of six feet, and had been found growing in shady situations in 

 the woods at Chincao and Muna ; places which are situated north- 

 east of Lima, where the climate is much more temperate than the 

 neighbourhood of Mexico, from whence we had F. fulgens, and con- 

 sequently, we have no doubt will be found to be more hardy than 

 that species. It is a plant of easy culture, growing luxuriantly in a 

 compost of rich loam and sandy peat. It readily propagates from 



