172 FUCHSIA HYBRID VARIETIES. 



■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 the 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 May ; 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 sur- 

 vives the winter, and is prepared to be one of the greatest ornaments 

 to the flower garden. 



By impregnating the previous kinds of Fuchsias with the farina of 

 F. fulgens and F. corymbiflora, 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. 



The kind, No. 1, which we figure in our present number, is one 

 we raised last year, but being sown late did not bloom till this spring. 

 The plant is now several feet high, very vigorous, throwing out nu- 

 merous strong shoots, which are profusely in bloom, rendering it a 

 most beautiful object. We have seen at the London Horticultural 

 Societies Shows, recently held, and in the various public nurseries 

 around London, what are considered the most superb sent out, and 

 it far surpasses all others we have seen. We shall soon have plants 

 ready to send out, and we hesitate not to state it will be a highly 

 ornamental plant wherever cultivated. 



No. 2, F. Venus victrir, was raised by Mr. Gulliver, gardener to 

 the Rev. S. Marriott, of Horsmonden, in Kent. We saw a large 

 plant of it in bloom, and though the flowers are not large, yet bloom 

 freelv, and the pretty contrast of the corolla and sepals renders it 

 very interesting and deserving a place in every collection. 



Persons desirous of growing very tall specimens in the open ground, 

 may accomplish it by the following means : 



At the end of autumn, take some straight dry straw, and place it 

 among and around the shoots, having a strong stake to secure them 



