122 THE FRUIT-TREE Ai\D SHRUB PRUNER. 



This is a very showy and free-flowering variety, having 

 bright scarlet flowers. It will grow to a large size in 

 a warm greenhouse, but the plant requires stopping 

 while young to induce a branching habit, and the 

 leaders also require frequent stopping. In doing this 

 there is some danger of the plant bleeding, therefore 

 when it is cut a lighted lamp supplied with benzoline 

 should be kept close at hand, and the moment it is 

 done some red sealing-wax should be immediately placed 

 on the cut quite hot, holding the lamp and wax close 

 to the cut, in which case the danger of bleeding will be 

 avoided. 



The Fuchsia. 



I have not much occasion to say anything here 

 about the Fuchsia, for, as a rule, the habits and culture 

 of this genus are well known ; but as there are exceptions 

 to every rule, so it happens in reference to this plant. 

 And here, for the better information of any reader who 

 cannot correctly spell the word Fuchsia, I beg to refer 

 to its origin. The name is derived from that of the 

 man who either found it and introduced it from seed 

 or otherwise. Fucks was his name, and the " ia " was 

 added just as we now attach two fs to a seedling 

 of any new plant, or to one newly found. 



Fuchsia Julgens, minor and major, are certainly a 

 distinct species, although the word Julgens applied no 

 doubt originally to the whole genus, as it refers to the 

 colour, which means "shining red," that being the 

 colour of the variety first introduced. Some say that 

 fulgens refers to the disposition of the flower, but as a 

 rule it means shining or glowing, scarlet or red, 

 which, as I have already said, was the original colour 

 of the Fuchsia. They are a very beautiful species. 

 F. Major is one of the grandest flowering species of 

 this genus, and when grown to a standard with a clean 

 stem of six feet, and the plant induced to form a good 

 head from which numerous corymbs of flowers are sus- 

 pended, it forms a fine floral object. It is necessary to 

 form a good symmetrical head of say six or seven main 



