Herbaceous and Bedding Plants 



stronger the soil the deeper the color of the blossoms; in heavy 

 loam they are deep orange in color, while in sand they are of a 

 pale lemon shade with smaller flowers and shorter leaves. 



Propagate, after the first Fall rains, by sowing seeds in places 

 where they are to flower, and covering the seeds to the depth of 

 an eighth of an inch. The yourig plants, when two inches high, 

 should be thinned to six inches apart; give the ground about 

 them a light mulching of old manure. In ordinary seasons they 

 require no artificial irrigation. There are several garden varieties 

 with different shades of color from white to a reddish orange, 

 including some which are pink. 



FUCHSIA. 



A genus comprising about fifty 

 species of small shrubs or trees, most 

 of them having been introduced from 

 South America and Mexico. Fuchsias 

 are among the most popular and or- 

 namental of our garden plants, es- 

 pecially along the coast where they 

 receive the benefit of the cool ocean 

 breeze and attain a height of twenty 

 feet. Whether the garden be large 

 or small, it should have a few repre- 

 sentative Fuchsia plants. They are 

 excellent for covering fences or walls, 

 where their branches with their 



panicles of rich flowers should be allowed to grow and droop 

 naturally. For forming bush or pyramid-shaped specimens, 

 Fuchsias are admirably adapted; if for pyramid, they should be 

 trained with a single stem, the branches being pinched when 

 they grow out of shape and the main stem being allowed to take 

 the lead, it being pinched only when it fails to branch. When 



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