84 PESCRIPTION OF A VARIETY OF FUCHSIAS. 



in honour of the poet Virgil, whose Georgics contain many things 

 interesting to Botanists. 



Total : Genera 31, species 191, contained in Tribe Sophoii^:. 



F. F. Ashford. 

 (to be continued.) 



ARTICLE V. — A Continuation of a Description of the 

 Species and Varieties of Fuchsias, with Particulars 

 of the Method of Cultivation, $c. By Mr. W. Bar- 

 ratt, Nurseryman, Wakefield. 



As my former remarks on this splendid family of plants (Vol. 

 II. page 176) seem to have met with your approbation, I am 

 induced to offer a few more remarks on some more new kinds. 

 The plants which I have had growing in the open border for se- 

 veral years, were for about three months after I wrote to you last 

 July, profusely filled with flowers ; indeed, some of them were 

 splendid beyond description ; and not only so, but the acquisition 

 of new kinds has so heightened my esteem for them, that I am 

 looking forward to summer with a solicitude and anticipation not 

 easily to be expressed ; and if I should draw down the censure of 

 some whose views of this lovely plant are not so warmly enthu- 

 siastic as mine, I should only wish for the pleasure of showing 

 them the bed of Fuchsias grown in my Botanical Garden, when 

 their pendant branches are almost weighed to the ground with 

 their graceful scarlet flowers, and the' very ground itself covered 

 by a thick carpet of fallen flowers. 



27, F. conspicua. — A strong growing kind, with lanated leaves 

 and large flowers, particularly showy and graceful. 



28, grandijlora. — A stiff and very compact grower, a most 

 profuse bloomer, flowers shaped somewhat like F. globosa, but 

 much larger, and of a deep blood colour; its freeness in flowering, 

 compact habits, large flowers, and rich colour, at once stamp its 

 superiority to every other, for rooms, hot-houses, or beds. I pro- 

 cured the whole stock at a great price ; I have several ordered at 

 5s. each for London, as soon as they are fit for carriage. 



29, reflexa. — A seedling of my own, bloomed for the first 

 time last summer, and has seldom been without buds of flowers 



