CULTURE OF FAVORITE PLANTS. 
HPUCH SLA, 
’ WINGING bells and neat, glossy foliage mark the Fuchsia, which has 
for many years formed one of the most attractive of plants for both 
greenhouse and parlor culture. Dryness of the atmosphere, one great 
= (< cause of failure, can be obviated by sprinkling in the summer, and a 
AYSSSNV vessel of water on the stove in winter. Buds drop from several causes, 
the fault above mentioned being one, and from the two extremes of 
keeping the roots either too dry or too wet. In summer, when in bloom, it 
would be advisable to water the plants twice a day if the pot is pretty full of 
roots and the shrub of fair size. This should be thoroughly done, but on no 
account should the plant be allowed to stand in a saucer of water. This advice 
presupposes an open soil and free drainage. After the flowering is over, water 
should be given more sparingly—about twice a week —as growth at this season (except 
in the winter-flowering varieties) should not be encouraged. They can be wintered in 
any common cellar, free from frost. Among the best varieties for indoor blooming in winter 
are the F. speciosa, the F. serratifolia multiflora and the Rose of Castile. For outdoor bloom- 
ing they require a partially shaded situation, under trees or arbors or in the vicinity of other 
bushes; though when planted they will bloom in a sunny place also, but not so well. 
Fuchsias are propagated from slips, and when required for large plants should be kept 
continually growing, shifting into the next size larger pots as soon as the roots touch the 
sides, until they reach the largest size, when they should be transplanted into boxes or 
tubs, where they may be left for many years, giving them an annual top-dressing of cow- 
manure, and frequent applications of liquid manure during the season of growth. They 
can also be grown from the seed, sometimes giving new varieties. The rule for soil is 
one part each of loam, leaf-mold and cow-manure; but for a fine specimen plant it should 
be at least one-half cow-manure. 
= BUN ELTA. 
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LDP 
REAT numbers of people know this species of the Liliaceous 
family under the more common title of the Day Lily, though it is 
easily distinguishable from the Hemerocallis, or common Day Lily, 
odes both in the leaf and flower. The leaves of the Funkia are obovate, 
” while those of the Hemerocallis are a broadish linear; the flowers 
of the latter are a light yellow, and those of the Funkia a bluish 
white, and somewhat smaller, with a tubular shape. Another difference 
easy to be observed is that the Funkia blooms from July to September, while 
4 the other is earlier. The botanic name, given in honor of a German botanist, 
has not quite universally replaced the older name in popular acceptance, and 
the delay has occasioned some little confusion in the minds of many amateurs. 
The Funkia, which is fast becoming recognized as the true Day Lily, is from 
China and Japan. Its finest species, the F. subcordata, or Japonica of the catalogues, the 
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