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flowers and scarlet fruit ; but as it ascends to fifty feet high when 
prosperous, this would seem not everybody’s fuchsia. ‘The genus 
honours Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist of distinction, and it 
is interesting to note the “Botanical Magazine’s”’ hand-painted 
picture of F’. coccinea, judged to be a subject for a stove when first 
introduced in Kew from Chili in 1788, but now the most popular 
of garden shrubs. 
Gaultheria nummularioides and G. trichophylla are the most 
interesting of this family. The latter, with large amethystine blue 
fruits and pretty pink bells, increases here in peat; the former, 
with white blossoms and scarlet berries, will not prosper with me 
insun or shade. Both are Himalayans, but their needs are different. 
Neither do the other Gaultherias, save the robust G. shallon, go 
forward much with me. 
Gaylussacia, of the vaccinium order, makes but a mean show, in 
a peat bed. Its berries, though they have some reputation in 
North America, are neither sweet nor agreeable here. Beside it 
the little Genista sagittalis, with peculiar winged and jointed limbs, 
increases and flowers freely. I have the white broom too; and, 
in a cold house, treasure that monarch of the genus, G'.. monosperma. 
This splendid Spaniard I saw for the first time at San Remo, 
where its fragrance filled a large garden and its silver-green graces 
were almost concealed under a shower of white flowers. ‘There is 
a touch of pale chocolate in the heart of each blossom, and the 
fragrance—so fresh and clean—is not exceeded by any growing 
thing. In Spain and Morocco this shrub is used to strengthen the 
sandhills ; in England, I fear, it cannot be counted on to succeed at 
all out of doors. It is tender, and flowers much too early for safety. 
Give it, therefore, a cold, dry, airy house, and a bed of peat and 
