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We had a plant of Fuchsia corymbiflora, about two feet high, 

 planted in the open border last May, in a sheltered situation from 

 west and north winds ; the soil is a light sandy loam, this was mode- 

 rately enriched with rotten dung. The plant was well attended with 

 watering and training, it grew to upwards of five feet high, and at the 

 summit in July showed a head of bloom; as soon as this made its 

 appearance lateral shoots were produced. The principal raceme, and 

 more than twenty others on the like number of lateral branches, have 

 been finely in bloom for several weeks. On the first produced ra- 

 ceme we counted upwards of two hundred and forty blooms. The 

 plant was an object of universal admiration, and its beauty we cannot 

 do justice to here. We have heard by some that the plant has not 

 realized in all instances what had been anticipated of it ; the failure 

 has been from treatment alone. Those persons who keep their plants 

 nnpruned, and allow them to produce lateral shoots next season, will, 

 if otherwise properly attended to, find it one of the most ornamental 

 plants that can adorn the flower border. We expect next season to 

 have a number of hybrids from the seed we have saved from our 

 plant, which has been impregnated with kinds most likely to effect a 

 change. We think F. cordifolia is a very suitable kind to hybridize 

 with, and recommend our readers to make the experiment ; we have 

 no doubt the result will amply compensate for the attention required. 

 We find that the new hybrid kinds we possess, not only bloom early 

 in the spring but they continue till now, and many appear likely to 

 bloom for several weeks to come. 



ARTICLE II. 



FLORICULTURAL GLEANINGS.— No. 2. 



DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS ON A FEW PICOTEES. 



BY MR. WILLIAM HARRISON, SECRETARY TO THE FELTON FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



Ely's Doctor Horner. 

 This is another of Ely's choicest Picotees. It well deserves the 

 name of a magnificent variety ; and the amateur who grows this and 

 Mrs. Hemmingway, may calculate, with certainty, upon exhibiting 

 two of the finest purple-edged varieties that are in cultivation, pro- 

 vided he succeeds in keeping them from accident, and preserves 

 them in competing order. Dr. Horner gets to a very superior size, 



