122 ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE 



3. FUCHSIA, Vau. PICTA. 



This is one of the immense quantity of seedlings that we raised, 

 and it bloomed with us late in the season of 1844. The blossoms do 

 not stand erect, as represented in our plate, but are, after the usual 

 mode, pendant ; the representation being thus given to suit our artist 

 in arranging the three flowers to suit the size of the plate ; the blos- 

 soms are larger, too, than the figure given. It is a free-flowering 

 plant, grows vigorously, and is very distinctively pretty. Our plant 

 had one or two entire self-coloured flowers, which added to its beauty 

 in the contrast given. It deserves a place in every collection. Wc 

 expect to have upwards of 4000 seedlings bloom during the present 

 season j and, as we paid very special attention to intermix the various 

 superior varieties, we doubt not but the results will afford us some 

 valuable additions to the lovelv tribe. 



ARTICLE II. 



AN EXTRACT ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE AMARYLLIS 

 TRIBE OF PLANTS, 



AS RECOMMENDED BY THE HON. AND REV. WILLIAM HERBERT, DEAN OF MANCHESTER 

 IN HIS EXCELLENT WORK ON THE AMAUYLLHJACE.E. 



[Several correspondents having recjuested, in former numbers, some 

 information on the culture of Cape bulbs, and having recently had 

 the privilege of reading the very valuable work of the Dean of Man- 

 chester, on the bulbous tribe of plants, induces me to extract the 

 following from the work, for the use of the correspondents referred to, 

 and as a recommendation of the work itself, containing such a fund 

 of valuable instruction on the subjects treated upon.] 



ON CYRTANTHUS. 



" They are altogether plants of difficult culture, the bulbs being more 

 disposed to dwindle and rot than to increase in bulk. Mr. Griffin 

 was, I think, more successful than most others in the cultivation of 

 C. obliquus, of which he had many strong bulbs on a shelf, very near 

 the glass in his stove, when the heat was never great. A common 

 greenhouse is usually too damp for it in winter, and the air of a hot 

 stove too confined. A light soil, which is not retentive of water, will 

 be found to suit the whole genus; and I think that the use of peat 



