318 PRINCIPLES OF GARDENING. [CH. IX. 



Among these are Pinus Llaveana, P. Teocote, P. pa- 

 tula, P. Hartivegll, Cupressus thurifera, Jumperus 

 flaccida, Abies religiosa, and some others a. 



Closely connected with the consideration of accli- 

 matization of plants is the fact that they retain 

 habits long after their removal to situations in which 

 these habits are unsuitable. Thus the hyacinth, a 

 native of Southern Asia, begins to shew symptoms 

 of vegetation here in autumn, wliich answers to the 

 spring of its long-left native clime. So the fuchsia, 

 although it accommodates itself to our hemisphere, 

 and submitting to remain dormant during the 

 winter, will revive in the spring, yet the season 

 duiing which it ^ill grow most vigorously, if placed 

 in a suitable temperatui'e, is the winter, for this is 

 the spring-time of its native countiy, Chili. This. 

 I consider, is the rationale of what Mr. Ayres justly 

 calls the whole secret of fuchsia management^. It 

 should be placed at the end of December, in a suit- 

 able temperature, and duly supplied with moisture 

 and manure, and it ^Nill have attained a growth in 

 April far larger than it would during twice the 

 number of months, if the growth were not per- 

 mitted to commence until the spring. 



In the next place, let us consider what cir- 

 cumstances render a plant most liable to suffer 

 from frost, and let it be observed once for all, that 

 " Gard. Chron. 315, &c. " Gard. Cliron. 821. 



