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task attain to eoiuplete success. And why do they fail ',' 

 Well, sometimes through using a jioor, liarsh soil, hut 

 more often through exposing the ])lauts to cold draughts, 

 and giying insutticient water, for the fuchsia is a tlursU- 

 ])lant^, and some of the hardier species are natives of 

 climates that are characterised by the peculiarity that "the 

 rain it raineth every day " and every night also. 



Hence another jioint of interest. It is in the moist 

 climates of Britain that we meet with the most splendid 

 garden fuchias. In the Isle of Wight^ in Dorset, Devon, 

 Cornwall, in a few places on the AVelsh coast line, and in 

 many places in the West of Scotland the fuchsia becomes 

 a gigantic fountain of coral drops, a genuine surprise and 

 wonder to the noble tourist who, in Loudon, or Norwich, 

 or Hull, has seen the garden fuchsias make a wiry growth 

 of one to two feet at the utmost, and look like pensioners 

 in arrear of their ])ay at the best of times. The flushes in 

 the west, more especially of the splendid Pur/is/n lliccdiion/ , 

 are gigantic, and one might almost say that an arm\- 

 could encamp in the pleasaut shadow of one (jf them. The 

 equable temperature of the western coast is greath iu 

 their fa^'our, Ijut the humidity of the atmosphere is the 

 chief cause of their lustiness, and the amateur florist ma}' 

 take the hint, aild if bent on having sjilendid fuchsias 

 would do well to make special arrangements with tlie 

 water company. While waiting to make ])eace with the 

 pur\'eyors of drink, let him give attention to the gi-owth 

 of radishes, remembering that fuchsias are to be giown in 

 nearly the same way. 



The splendours of the exhibition fuchsias are well 

 known, but few, even of exjierieuced hortieultiu-ists, 

 are familiar with the more distinctive and noble species. 



