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of the plants. A little brushwood or rough litter may be laid over the 

 stools in very severe frost. Fuchsias like a well-drained, loamy soil, and 

 can be increased with the greatest ease by means of soft-wood cuttings 

 struck in heat. 



As to the leading features of the genus, the leaves are opposite or 

 whorled (rarely alternate), and deciduous ; the flowers are pendulous, and 

 produced singly on their stalks from the leaf-axils, or crowded in a 

 terminal cluster; the calyx is tubular at the base, separating into four- 

 pointed segments; the petals are four, springing from the end of the 

 calyx-tube; the stamens eight; the fruit a juicy, four-sided berry, with 

 rounded corners. Natives of S. America, Mexico, and New Zealand. 



The following descriptive list of a few sorts is by no means exhaustive, 

 but will serve to draw attention to the outdoor possibilities of a genus 

 of shrubs which must, on the whole, be regarded as greenhouse rather 

 than hardy: 



F. CONICA, Lin&ley. A stiff-habited shrub with short -jointed, red shoots. 

 Leaves broadly ovate or oval, mostly i to ii ins. long. Flowers slender, red 

 and purple ; calyx \ in. long, with sepals | in. long and \ in. wide ; petals 

 narrowly obovate. Distinct in the combination of small leaves and long 

 flowers. Native of Chile. 



F. CORALLiNA,-//0r/. (syn. F. exoniensis). Branches reddish purple when 

 young. Leaves often in threes, i^ to 4 ins. long, \ to 2 ins. wide ; dark green 

 suffused with red-purple, especially the stalk, midrib, and veins. Calyx I to 

 ijy ins. long, with rich scarlet-red sepals 3- in. wide ; petals purple, obovate ; 

 stamens red, standing out f in. beyond the petals. A selected form or hybrid 

 of F. macrostemma. 



F. GLOBOSA, Lindley, (Bot. Reg., t 1556). A sturdy bush with ovate 

 leaves I to 2 ins. long, glossy beneath. Calyx I in. long, rich red, with a 

 short tube and sepals | in. long, in. wide ; petals rich purple, broadly obovate, 

 in. wide. This is distinguished by its stout buds and the comparative 

 broadness and shortness of the floral parts. 



F. GRACILIS, Hort. (Bot. Reg., t. 847). A form of the macrostemma group, 

 with smaller leaves proportionately longer-stalked than those of corallina. 

 Flowers red and purple ; calyx f in. long, sepals \ in. wide ; stalk very slender, 

 ii to 2 ins. long. A very elegant shrub, of which several minor forms with 

 colloquial names are grown. 



F. MACROSTEMMA, Ruiz and Pavon. A South American species, introduced 

 early in the nineteenth century. It probably includes all the foregoing sorts, 

 being distinguished by a rich scarlet calyx, purple petals, much protruded 

 stamens, and still more protruded style. Leaves mostly in threes at each 

 joint. Figured in Bot. Mag.^ t. 97, as coccinea (not of Alton). 



F. PUMILA, Hort, A dainty little shrub of dwarf, compact, rounded habit : 

 leaves \ to f in. long, \ to \ in. wide, lanceolate ; stalks, midrib, and veins red 

 (like the young wood). Flowers on slender red stalks i in. long ; calyx red, 

 petals purple, the whole flower f in. long. 



F. RlCCARTONl, Hort. Considered to be one of the hardiest of fuchsias. 

 It has the same colouring as the preceding, but the flower-buds are unusually 

 stout, and the floral parts short and broad. Sepals \ in. long, \ in. wide ; 

 calyx-tube scarcely in. long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate", with a purplish tinge. 



GARRYA. CORNACE^E. 



A genus of evergreen, unisexual shrubs or small trees, with opposite 

 leaves and flowers produced in greyish catkins. With the exception of 



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