THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



AUGUST 1st, 1842. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



FUCHSIA HYBRID VARIETIES. (Flowered Fuchsia.) 



Onagrace.e. Octandria, Monogvnia. 



[Fuchsia ; so named in honour of Leonard Fuchs, a noted German botanist, 

 and author of" Historia Stirpium."] 



The entire family of Fuchsias are objects of considerable interest and 

 attraction ; the growth of the plants is graceful and pleasing, but 

 when ornamented with a profusion of their elegant, pendant, highly 

 coloured blossoms, they become objects of peculiar beauty, and give 

 them a superior claim to a situation wherever they can be introduced. 

 They possess an additional recommendation, inasmuch as they can 

 be grown alike successful in the open air, pit, frame, green-house, 

 conservatory, or sitting-room, and if in-doors can be kept in bloom 

 for ten successive months. 



Up to the year 1823, there were but two kinds grown in this 

 country; viz., F. coccinea and F. lycioides. So much was the former 

 species admired and sought after, that in a few years there was 

 scarcely a greenhouse or conservatory but what was ornamented 

 with its graceful beauties; in fact, its charms and ease of culture 

 were such as to entitle it to a residence even from a palace to a 

 cottage. Since the above named period there has been a consider- 

 able addition of kinds, most of which far exceed in beauty the 

 former introduced species ; in fact, several of them are very mag- 

 nificent. 



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