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gracilis,) which is a crimson and purple flower, 

 is one of the best for the garden bed. It is a 

 handsome slender shrub, about foui' feet high ; 

 its leaves, like most of the fuchsias, veined with 

 red. This was introduced from Chili in 1823, 

 and though usually a shriib, may be trained to 

 a single stem. The smaller plant, the globe 

 fuchsia, (Fuchsia glohosa,) is also very hardy. 



The fuchsias were named after Leonard 

 FiTchs, a well-known German botanist, who 

 pubhshed some valuable works in the sixteenth 

 century. Their fruit is a dark berry, which 

 when ripe is agreeable to the taste. These 

 plants are often, when in the garden, five feet 

 high ; while in the greenhouse it is no uncom- 

 mon thing to see them nine or ten feet in height. 



The French honeysuckle has long been an 

 ornament to our gardens. Parkinson, who 

 published his "Garden of Flowers" in 1596, 

 calls it the red satin flower, and the red-flow- 

 ered fitchling ; and adds, "some fooUshly call 

 it the red or French honeysuckle." The nu- 

 merous species of hedysarum are all hardy 

 flowers, and one which grows wild in various 

 parts of Asia, the prickly-stemmed species, 

 (Hedysarum Alhagi,) is celebrated as being the 

 shrub which produces manna. 



Many beautiful poppies are expanding their 

 crumpled petals to the sunshine, and though 

 their unpleasing odour renders them little 

 suited for nosegays, yet they are very brilliant 

 additions to the parterre. The brightest of 

 them all is the large scarlet eastern poppy, 



