220 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE ~ 
SELF-COLOURED SECTION. Beaconsfield, orange-red. Monarch, bright red. 
Admiral Gervais, bright | Dr. Sankey, rub Sedan, crimson-red. 
mine. Fireworks, dark ruby. Snowcloud, white. 
DOUBLE-FLOWERED SECTION. 
Auguste Hardy, scarlet cal.,| Comte Leon Lolstoi, red | Mignonne, red calyx, pure 
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rosy-violet corolla. calyx, blue-black corolla. white corolla. 
Alphonse Daudet, scarlet| De M. ontalivet, rosy calyx, | Pink Perfection, creamy 
calyx, deep violet corolla. light blue corolla. calyx, violet corolla. 
Berliner Kind, red calyx, Eugene  Verconsin, rosy | Rose enomenal, very 
white corolla white and slaty blue. large, rose coloured. 
Boreatton, crimson calyx, | Marvellous, calyx red,| White Phenomenal, white 
deep purple corolla. corolla blue. corolla. 
Fuchsias of all kinds are most readily propagated by 
cuttings, which root with freedom at nearly all times. For 
this purpose cutoff portions of the growing shoots that give no sign of flower 
buds. These should be put in pans of light soil and moist warm frames. 
When the young plants are rooted transfer them to beds of light, but 
very rich soil, in which they will come on rapidly if treated to abundant 
moisture; or pot them singly, with the same treatment as regards soil 
and moisture. When the pots are well filled with roots, liquid manure 
may be given freely ; and abundance of water should never be withheld. 
For the obtaining of new varieties hybridisation must be carefully 
attended to, the flowers marked, and the ripening of the berries watched. 
The seeds are embedded in pulp, which must be washed away, and the 
seeds sown at once. To obtain a suitable soil that is at once rich and 
light, dried cow-dung should be mixed with double the quantity of loam, 
neither being fine] y powdered. With such a compost the best results 
will be obtained, but all the same Fuchsias will do well in almost any 
garden soil. Except in the extreme south and west of our islands, 
Fuchsias out of doors must be cut down on the approach of hard weather, 
and the stump covered with a little heap of dry coal-ashes to keep off 
the frost. Pot-plants should be wintered dry and in a cool place. 
Description of Plate 106 illustrates two of the forms of Fuchsia 
Plates106and107. moorostema — A, the var. globosa, and B, the var. 
gracilis. Figs. 1 and 2 are sections through these forms respectively. 
Plate 107 shows a couple of flowering shoots of F. dea ecadgiaa one 
the flowers grow singly from the leaf-axils; in the other they ants 
terminal cluster. F: ig. 1 is a section of the flower, from which it will be 
seen clearly how cross-fertilisation is favoured. Long-tongued sas = 
lepidoptera seeking to obtain the honey secreted at the narrow en 
the long tube use the clapper-like style as an alighting stage, an 
crawl partly up it. The pollen from the anthers may fall upon the style, 
but not upon the stigmatic surface which is beneath. The bee crawling 
Cultivation. 
