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THE FUCHSIA. 



Gakden Variety. 



J-IM i'lU'lisia is beyond doubt one 

 ut the most beautiful of our 

 familiar garden flowers. Now, 

 everybody knows how beautifu' 

 it is, and as gilding refined 

 yold is a wasteful exeess, we 

 ^(ilemnly promise not to waste 

 another word in general re- 

 marks on that matter. But of 

 its interest? It has no place 

 in history, and no poet of re- 

 Udwn has written an ode in its 

 honour. No. But it represents 

 Ihe floral wealth of certain of 

 the richest and poorest parts 

 (if the earth ■'s surface. It ex- 

 tends as a genus along the Paci- 

 fic sea-board of South America, 

 from sunny Cnenca to the cold 

 and cloud \- Falkland Islands, and if aided with just a little 

 warmth would no doubt run into fhe Ijand of Desolation, 

 and compete for supremacy as a vegetable curiosity with 

 that nondescript thing the Kerguelen cabbage. But it 

 loves a land of luxury nevertheless, for we meet with 



