BOTANICAL INDEX 
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FUCHSIA ERECT A NOVELTY. Cannell. 
Fig. 156. 
|HERE appears to be no limit to the 
strange or unsual forms and colors of 
the vegetable kingdom, especially in 
the hands of careful and patient culti- 
vators. A Fuchsia with an upright 
fldjpver, would seem to be anything but 
a Fuchsia; at least, it would seem so to us, 
without seeing it. Still it is a fact, and we 
give at Fig. 15(5 an illustration of a flowering 
plant, from the pen of Henry Cannell, the 
celebrated nurseryman of Svvanly, England, 
who has made it known to the plant-loving 
world, in his admirable Catalogue of New 
Plants, for 1879. 
Fuchsia erecta novelty was raised by the late 
Mr. Wyness of Buckingham Palace, in 1850, 
and exhibited by him at the Regents Park 
Flower Show in 1858, where very little no- 
tice was taken of it. It was, however, widely 
distributed over England, and now nearly 
every greenhouse in the Kingdom possesses 
specimens of it. As seen in the picture, it 
produces erect flowers well above the foliage, 
with tube and sepals stained with white; se- 
pals broad and well reflexed; corolla light 
pink margined with rose; plant a free bloomer 
of strong and branching habit, and what is of 
more value, it is the best of all light flowered 
Fuchsias for bedding out. 
In a private letter from Mr. Cannell, he 
says: — “Although I have it under the name 
‘erecta von novelty ,’ it should not be ‘von novelty,'’ 
but simply ereda novelty .” — The idea has been 
given out that it is a French production, and 
the use of the monosylable von, gives plausa- 
bility to the error. 
PILOCEREUS SENILIS. 
|0 plants are more curious and strange than some varieties of Cactus, and as 
some of the strangest forms are so seldom seen, we give an illustration (Fig. 
157) of one of the number, the well known “Old Man Cactus;” so called 
from the numerous tufts of long, white, flexible spines, which strongly re- 
semble the gray hair of an old man’s head. The species is a native of Mex- 
ico, usually a cylindrical or round stem of a foot or more in height, as seen 
in cultivation, but in its native country it often reaches twenty or twenty-five feet 
in height, and ten inches in diameter. The stem is divided into thirty or forty nar- 
row furrows, with corresponding ridges, from the summit of which are the thickly 
