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its tender, but gorgeous eastern sisters, IIow long shall 

 our gardens be deficient in this great ornament ?" 



Fuchsias, or Ladies' Eardrop. — Nothing will be more 

 surprising to those Avho have cultivated this beautiful plant, 

 and thought it well grown if a foot higli, and bi'illiant if a 

 dozen blossoms showed at once, than the magnificent size 

 and flowering oi Fuchsias as seen in England. 



At the Shefl[ield Botanical Gardens Mr. Hovey saw the 

 Fuchsias globosa major, upwards of twenty feet high, the 

 stem, at the base, being two inches through ! Its drooping 

 branches were clothed with thousands of flowers ; another 

 variety, " called Youngii grandiflora was also twenty feet 

 high, and equally strong, with innumerable flowers: this 

 plant was only seven years old. It is almost impossible for 

 those -who have never seen specimens more than four or 

 five feet high, to imagine the great beauty of such gigantic 

 plants ; notwithstanding their size they were well grown, 

 being of symmetrical shape, and with vigorous and "healthy 

 foliage ; they were planted in very large tubs, about two 

 feet deep and two feet in diameter. 



"The splendid F.fulgens and corymhiflora we also saw 

 here upward of ten feet high, and full of their showy 

 flowers." 



The Regent's Park Garden occasions the following 

 remarks : 



" Fuchsia glohosa was, perhaps, as beautiful as anything 

 which we saw for this subject. There is an opinion pre- 

 valent that fuchsias in our climate do not do well in the 

 open border ; but we suspect such an idea has been pre- 

 maturely formed without experience, for we recollect seeing 

 in the garden of Mr. Johnson, of Lynn, three years ago, 

 plants, which were then in profuse bloom, and had been so 

 all summer, turned out of the pots into the soil ; the proba- 

 bility is that the plants have not been abundant enough to 

 give a fiiir trial. As they are easily propagated, and may 

 be sold almost as cheap as verbenas, we hope to hear of 



