176 Floricultural and Botanical Notices 



didns and Sternw. With regard to their culture it may be 

 said that they succeed very well in the open air, planted in 

 leaf mould. They are taken up towards the end of Sep- 

 tember, after the stems are completely withered. The otf- 

 setts and bulbs are preserved during winter in a dry place 

 protected from frost. They are replanted in the open 

 ground in April or May. {Revue Hoi'ticole. for Sept. 1843.) 



New Fiichslas and Verbenas. — The most popular flowers 

 among English cultivators, as would appear from the Gard- 

 dening periodicals, are the fuchsias and verbenas. The 

 number of new varieties which have been produced within 

 a year or two, is truly astonishing, particularly of fuchsias ; 

 were it possible to count them all. we doubt not they would 

 amount to at least two hundred. Messrs. Youell &. Co., 

 extensive cultivators at Yarmouth, raised in the summer of 

 1842, upwards of three th.onsand, plants, to the flowering of 

 which one house was entirely devoted in 1843 ; and although 

 many of the kinds were truly beautiful, yet in the present 

 improved state of the flower, a selection of only six was 

 preserved as worthy of name These were Queen Victoria, 

 Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, Marchioness of I\ormanby, 

 Lady Alice Peel and Lady Walsingham. They are off"ered 

 for sale at 7s. 6d. per plant. — Fd. 



Mr. Fortune's progress in China. — Advices have been 

 received from Mr. Fortune, v/ho, it will be recollected, went 

 out from the London Horticultural Society last year, to col- 

 lect seeds and plants, dated Chusan, Nov. 12, 1843. He 

 describes the whole coast of China to the northM^ard as 

 consisting of bare, rugged rock, barren sand, and burnt, 

 gravelly clay, but with beautiful plants here and there. 

 He had met with very bad weather in his passage to Amoy, 

 but had had an opportunity of exploring the islands of 

 Kong-loo-soo and iVmoy. On the voyage thence to Chusan, 

 the vessel encountered heavy gales in the Formosa Channel, 

 and was twice driven back, once to Chinchen and once to 

 Chamoo ; this, however, gave him the opportunity of land- 

 ing at these places, and exploring the country for several 

 miles inland. On no occasion had he met with serious ob- 

 stacles to penetrating the country, but, on the contrary, 

 found the natives particularly civil, much more so than on 

 the coast further south and at Canton. Mr. Fortune had 

 fallen in with hills covered with azaleas, and with several 

 other good things, seeds of which, in very small quantities, 



