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FUCHSIA CORDIFOLIA. 
and though this colour is not, in itself, a desirable one for flowers, yet when con- 
trasted with the tints of the tube, and the deep yellow of the conspicuous stamens, 
it produces a very good effect. 
Cultivated in a greenhouse or conservatory with common soil, the species blooms 
throughout the greater part of the year, and is especially useful for coming into 
bloom in March and April, when the ordinary members of the genus are but just 
beginning to grow. Planted in the open ground, however, about the present time, 
it acquires by the autumn a luxuriance, and yet a dwarfness and bushiness, which 
are not seen in the greenhouse, while the profusion and splendour of its blossoms 
are greatly increased. We should strongly advise that a few plants of it be treated 
thus, as well for ornamenting the open borders, as for preparing handsome specimens 
to be removed to the greenhouse in October. 
Increase is readily obtained by cuttings, and perhaps by seeds. It may probably 
prove of some service to the hybridist, in improving the colour of the crimson- 
flowered kinds. In the Botanical Hegister, it is stated, that " the berry, in the wild 
state, is from one to one and a half inches long, and pleasant to the taste. The 
Guatemalese call it Melocotoncito, and apparently eat it." 
Messrs. Young, of the Epsom Nursery, supplied the plant from which our 
drawing was taken in the autumn of last year. 
