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The only insects attacking the fuchsia are red spider, green fly, and 

 mealy-bug : the former is kept under by syringing, the fly by smoking, and 

 the bug by washing. 



The varieties with a double corolla are very showy, but lack the grace 

 and simplicity of the single. 



The white-corollaed varieties were first raised about 1855 : they are XQxy 

 showy, and present elegant contrasts of color, but are generally of weak 

 habit. The following species are well worth growing : corymbiflora, gracilis, 

 splmdens, serratifolia, and spectabilis ; the two latter of which are winter- 

 bloomers. 



F. globosa and its varieties are very fine for parlor-culture. F. speciosa is 

 a good winter-blooming variety. 



Each year gives us so many new varieties, that to give a list of the best 

 is almost an impossibility. The following, however, are fine kinds, which 

 will not disappoint the grower : — 



Venus de Medici. — White sepals, purple corolla ; a fine symmetrical grower. 



Puritani. — Crimson sepals, white corolla. 



Victor Emanuel. — Scarlet corolla, blue sepals. 



Rose of Castile. — Violet corolla, white sepals. 



Syringiflora. — Small purplish-crimson flowers, in a large erect truss. 



Sir Harry. — Crimson. 



Prince Imperial. — Dark crimson-purple. 



Lucrezia Borgia. — Sepals crimson, corolla violet-purple. 



Fantastic. — Double corolla, crimson and purple. 



Souvenir de Chiswick. — Crimson and purple. 



Cloth-of-Gold z.nd Acubcefolia have fine variegated foliage. 



Our illustration gives a good idea of the perfection to which the produc- 

 tion of new varieties has been carried. . E. S. -R., jfun. 



Glen Ridge, Februar)', 1868. 



