THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



NOVEMBER 1st, 1841. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



No. 1. FUCHSIA CORDIFOLIA. HEART-LEAVED. 



ONOGRARIA. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



This species has been introduced into this country by the London 

 Horticultural Society. It was discovered by Mr. Hartwey on the 

 volcano of Xetuch in South America, at the elevation of ten thousand 

 feet above the sea. It has a robust branched stem, and forms a very 

 compact bush. The leaves are of a deep green, and the stems are 

 red. The plant grows vigorously in the open border, and blooms 

 freely. The flowers have, this season, been higher coloured when 

 grown in doors than in the open air. It is an interesting, handsome 

 flowering species, well deserving cultivation. It strikes readily from 

 cuttings. 



No. 2, 3,4, and 5 are hybrids, which we have raised by cross im- 

 pregnation with the numerous kinds we previously possessed. We 

 impregnated them with the F.fulgens, and out of an immense number 

 of plants we raised we have selected upwards of twenty very strikingly 

 distinct and handsome. They are of vigorous growth and each pro- 

 fuse in blooming. Figures of others, in addition to those we now 

 give, will subsequently appear. The lovely family of Fuchsias well 

 merit cultivation either in the conservatory, greenhouse, or open air, 

 in each situation they are beautiful, graceful in habit, striking in 

 colour and form, and displaying their beauties the greater part of the 

 year in doors, and for half a year in the open air, being especially 

 ornamental at the end of summer and in autumn. 



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