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you inserted in your last Number, I mean, so far as regards the 
arrangement of their colours; and I would take the liberty of sug- 
gesting that a tabular form would be the most useful, admitting of the 
easiest reference. It would be desirable to state in such a table, not 
only what is the complimentary colour, but also what is the best con- 
trast. I would specify some of the colours about which I want this 
information, and which that Article does not satisfy. See table annexed. 
But if you feel that all this is beyond you, as I confess it is beyond 
me, perhaps some notice of this, my request, in your next Number 
would enlist the services of some lady amateur, whose more immediate 
province, perhaps, it is; or, perhaps, you can refer me to some work 
which treats of colours in these particulars. I have observed acci- 
dental notices of contrasts in some of your Numbers, but they seemed 
to me at the time not to mention several colours which I wanted 
information about. 
FUCHSIA CORDIFOLIA. 
BY J. C. 
Is this Fuchsia generally a shy bloomer? With me it grows to an 
immense size both in and out of doors, but a flower is seldom seen on 
it. Most probably I mismanage it. 
[In 1846 we had a strong plant grown in a rich loamy soil, in a pot 
about ten inches diameter at the top. It grew vigorously, but had 
only a very few flowers. Feeling disappointed with it, the plant was 
retained undisturbed in its pot, and during winter kept in a cool part 
of the greenhouse, and just secured from frost. Very little water 
was given, scarcely enough to keep the soil moist. As the spring 
advanced, the plant began to push, and an increase of water was given, 
but it was not re-potted. It commenced flowering early in the season, 
and continued to bloom profusely all the summer. The colours of the 
flowers were much richer than those borne when the plant was luxu- 
riant the previous year. It is very probable the plant will bloom well, 
if it be grown in a compost of sandy loam, and a moderate proportion 
of vegetable mould, also to have a pot comparatively small to the size 
of the plant. Properly attended to in other respects, we think it 
would prove to be, as it did with us, a very handsome object. | 
PLUMBAGO CAPENSIS. 
BY A. G. 
A consTAnT reader would feel obliged to some practitioner who can 
inform him, to say how he must grow this plant so as to bloom it well. 
I have a plant five years old, now in a twelve-inch pot, trained in a 
circular manner round some stout stakes from four to five feet high. 
Last year I spurred all the shoots into two or three eyes, and re-potted 
it in a rich loamy soil, and kept it in a cool greenhouse ; it looked 
healthy, and grew moderately, but bloomed very sparingly. Now, if 
any kind friend can inform me how I can grow and bloom it well, I 
shall feel greatly obliged. 
