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habit are suitable for the rock-garden. The annuals must, of course, be 
raised from seed sown out of doors in spring. The biennials are best sown 
as soon as the seed is ripe. Ifsown in March they will often flower in the 
following autumn, but this is not so desirable. Summer- or autumn-sown 
plants produce only a rosette of radical leaves their first season, and lay 
up much material in their thick tuberous root upon which they can 
draw next year for a profuse display of flowers. The perennials may be 
propagated by root-division as well as by seeds, and a third course is 
open in the taking of cuttings in spring and striking them in a cold 
frame. Some of the more compact, dwarf kinds, as well as the Godetias, 
make capital pot-plants for the cool greenhouse or conservatory. 
Description of Plate 104 contains figures of two species. That 
Flates10¢and105.marked AA, is @nothera speciosa, whilst B represents 
@. missowriensis, var. latifolia. 
Plate 105 shows one of the most favourite forms of @. amena, the 
garden var. known as Lady Albemarle. Fig. 1 is a section through the 
flower and ovary; 2, the seed, natural size and greatly enlarged; 3, a 
seedling. . 
FUCHSIAS 
Natural Order ONAGRARIEH. Genus Fuchsia 
FUCHSIA (name commemorative of Leonhard Fuchs, a sixteenth-century 
German botanist). A genus consisting of about fifty species of shrubs 
or small trees. Leaves oval or lance-shaped, usually opposite, occasionally 
in whorls of three. Calyx fleshy, coloured, tube produced above the 
ovary, limb split into four lobes. Petals four, often of different colour from 
the calyx. Stamens eight, on long slender filaments. Style twice the 
length of stamens, with head-like stigma. Ovary crowned with eight 
honey-secreting glands. Fruita pulpy berry. With very few exceptions 
the species are natives of Central and Southern America; those that are 
not American come from New Zealand. 
The first discovery of the Fuchsia was made by Father 
Plumier, who consecrated it to the memory of Fuchs, and 
published the name in 1703, calling his new species Fuchsia triphylla. 
The history of the introduction and popularisation of this genus has 
been often told. The story goes that about the year 1788 a sailor who 
had returned from South America brought with him a growing slip, 
which he presented to his wife or his mother. This was put in the 
window and carefully tended in honour of the absent one. In due time 
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History. 
