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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES, 
Fuchsia fulgens. Several showy varieties of this handsome plant exist in 
the smaller metropolitan nurseries, and some interesting hybrids have also been 
obtained, although we have yet seen none that are very valuable. Probably a 
farther impregnation of the flowers of those already procured with the pollen of 
F. fulgens will occasion a more decided interchange of character ; and we anticipate 
seeing many next season, in which the dwarf bushy habits and mode of flowering 
of the common kinds are associated with the stately flowers and foliage of our 
present subject. We have been attentively inquiring during the last year for 
every information on the culture of this plant which might assist any of our readers, 
but have not succeeded in eliciting anything further than has been before recorded, 
save the following particulars. 
Kept in a stove where a liberal heat is maintained, it retains its foliage through 
the winter, and flowers most abundantly during the greater part of the year. In 
the early spring and late autumnal months, the flowers are especially profuse, and, 
on this account, it will, if thus managed, be of admirable service to those who 
possess a stove, and naturally desire flowers at that period when few others are to 
be seen elsewhere. It requires a considerable range for its roots, and, if the house 
is so constructed as to allow of its being planted out in a border, will form a 
magnificent shrub. 
Solanum jasminoides. Under this name, we propose adding to our catalogues 
a very graceful and attractive species, which appears to us to be new, and has 
for some time past been blooming in the greenhouse of Messrs. Young, Epsom. 
Its habit and foliage are so exceedingly like those of some Jasmines, that, when not in 
flower, it would almost always be considered a species of that genus. It is a slender, 
smooth, climbing shrub, the young branches of which are deep green, as are also 
the leaves, these being besides either entire and ovate, imperfectly three-lobed, or 
equally three or five lobed. The flowers appear in extensive panicles, frequently 
from eight to twelve in each ; they are small, fiatly-campanulate, and bluish- 
white, with prominent yellow stamens in the centre. Altogether, this is the most 
elegant species of Solanum with which we are acquainted, and its value is much 
enhanced by the grateful fragrance of the blossoms. Messrs. Young received 
it from North America, without any knowledge of its native country ; but it was 
probably found in some of the more southerly districts of that continent. 
OPERATIONS FOR JANUARY. 
January is the month in which the employment of a little fire-heat usually 
begins to be requisite in plant-houses, since, at this period, frosts are frequently too 
severe to render other means of protection completely adequate. To suggest 
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