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a mushroom house on the one side, or 

 any place where a surplus of heat was 

 available, such would be readily accom- 

 plished without extra expense in fuel. 

 Some persons have advocated the 

 placing piping to convey heat inside the 

 cavity of the exterior walls : this sounds 

 somewhat philosophical, inasmuch as 

 in such a situation, with a slight amount 

 of controllable ventilation, the non-con- 

 ducting cavities might be kept dry and 

 warm. The situation of pipes or other 

 apparatus, however, should depend on 

 the arrangement made for the fruit; 

 the heating source, pipes, &c., being as 

 far removed from them as possible, 

 and certainly not immediately beneath 

 them. Such a little closet might possess 

 merely a stand for drawers down the 

 centre ; which stand should be an exact 

 counterpart of a stand in the centre of 

 the general store-room ; and the best 

 pears, or other tender fruits, being 

 placed in parcels in the general store, 

 might be removed in portions to this 

 ripening room, a whole drawer at once, 

 without moving the fruit. 



FU'CHSIA. (Named after Leonard 

 Fuchs, a German botanist. Nat. ord., 

 Onograds [Onograceee]. Linn., 8-Oc- 

 tandrla, \-Monogynia.) 



When gardeners discover the way to improve 

 the size and flavour of fruits, we cannot doubt 

 but that those of the Fuchsia and Cactus will 

 be among the first novelties in the dessert. 



F. alpe'stris (mountain), 20. Crimson. August. 

 Brazil. 1841. 



ape'tala (no-petaled). 10. Purple. Sep- 



tember. Chili. 1824. 



arbore'scens (tree-like). 16. Pink. October. 



Mexico. 1824. 



bacilla'ris (rod-branched). 5. Rose. July. 



Mexico. 1829. 



cocci'nea (scarlet). 6. Scarlet, purple. 



August. Chili. 1788. 



co'nica (conical). 4. Scarlet, purple. August. 



Chili. 1825. 



cordifo'lia (heart- leaved). 5. Orange. 



August. Mexico. 1840. 



corymbiflo'ra (cluster-flowered). 6. Scarlet. 



August. Peru. 1840. 



cylindra'cea (cyYin&ric&i-flowered). 2. Scar- 



let. August. Demerara. 1837. 



denticulu'ta (toothed). Crimson. August. 



Brazil. 



di'jic'ndens (pendent-flowered). 4. Crimson. 

 June. Brazil. 1848. 



discolor (two-coloured). 3. Purple, red. 



August. Port Famine. 1830. 



cA'cortini'ta (barked). 3. Green, purple. 



July. New Zealand. 1824. 



F.fu'lgem (glowing). 4. Vermilion. July. 

 Mexico. 1839. 



gra'cilin (slender). 8. Scarlet, purple. 



August. Chili. 1823. 



mnltiflo'ra (many -flowered). fi. 



Scarlet, purple. August. Chili. 1 824 . 



integrifo' lia (whole-leaved). Red. June. 



Braxil. 1841. 



macra'ntfia (large-flowered). 2. Red. April. 



Peru. 1845. 



niucroste'mon (long-stamened). 3. Scarlet, 



purple. July. Chili. 1823. 



microphy' lla (small-leaved). 6. Scarlet, 



purple. August. Mexico. 1828. 



ni'gricans (dark). Dark crimson. Venezuela. 



1848. 



ra'dicans (rooting). 20. Scarlet. September. 



Brazil. 1837. 



scrratifo'lia (saw-edge-leaved). 5. Scarlet, 



green. August. Peru. 1844. 



simplicicau'Ks (simple-stemmed). Crimson. 



July. Brazil. 



specttr'bilis (showy). 4. Scarlet. August. 



Andes of Cuenca. 184/. 



sple'ndens (splendid). 6. Scarlet, green. 



August. Mexico. 1841. 



tcne'lla (delicate). 8. Scarlet, purple. Au- 



gust. Chili. 1824. 



tetrada' ctyla (four- fingered -stigma). 2. 



Rose. July. Guatemala. 1842. 



tripliy'lla (three-leaved). Crimson. Sep- 



tember. Pichinchia. 1842. 



venu'sta (beautiful). 6. Purple. October. 



Mexico. 1825. 



virga'ta (twiggy). 4. Scarlet, purple. Au- 



gust. Mexico. 1825. 



FUCHSIA CULTURE. Propagation : 1j 

 cuttings. The best time for this is in 

 February and March. The plants re- 

 quire a little heat to stimulate them 

 into growth. The best kinds of cut- 

 tings are the young shoots taken off 

 close to the old wood as soon as they 

 are an inch long. Fill a sufficient num- 

 ber of 5- inch pots, with a compost of 

 loam and leaf -mould, in equal parts, to 

 within an inch of the top; fill the re- 

 maining space up with silver sand ; 

 water it gently to make it firm, then 

 put in the cuttings after trimming off 

 the lower leaves, give another gentle 

 watering, and place them in a mild hot 

 bed, or in a propagating house. If in 

 the latter, place hand-glasses over 

 them. The cuttings will soon strike 

 root, and should then be potted oil 1 into 

 the smallest pots; shade them from 

 the sun for a time, and then repot them 

 into pots two sizes larger. 



Ktj .stW. They are as easily ruiM'd 

 from seeds as by' cult ings. The object. 

 of raising them in tins way is not so 

 much to increase the plants as to raise 



