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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners 
Fuchsias. 
Our list of these has been carefully revised, and includes only really good sorts that can be highly recommonded. These beautiful flowers 
are not only admirably suited for pot culture indoors, but if planted out in May they will form beautiful objects in the garden and 
bloom profusely throughout the Summer and Autumn. * 
NEW AND SELECT VARIETIES. 
Those marked (*) are double-flowered. 
each- 
Beauty of Clyffe Hall. Tube and sepals blush 
white, corolla rich bright carmine pink ; beautiful ... 
BEAUTY OF EXETER. One of the largest 
and handsomest Fuchsias ; immense bright salmon 
rose blooms, most abuudantly produced on a plant of 
a vigorous habit ; most charming variety ... 
Beauty of Lavington. White tube and sepals, rosy 
carmine corolla ; very fine 
•Compacta supertaa. Beautiful dwarf compact habit ; 
tube and sepals light crimson, corolla violet blue 
•Colonel Domine. Sepals a bright rich scarlet, corolla 
a beautiful creamy white veined with pink; 
superb 
COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN. A beautiful 
dwarf-growing, free-flowering variety. Both the 
sepals and corolla being white, it is quite unique 
and totally distinct from any other Fuchsia, whilst 
its elegantly formed flowers and neat habit will make 
it a general favourite ... 
Diadem (Lye). Delicate blush tube and sepals, pale 
magenta corolla, broadly edged with brilliant carmine 
•Duchess of Edinburgh. A superb variety bearing 
large well-formed flowers; the tube and sepals which 
are well reflexed, are of a rich crimson-scarlet colour ; 
the corolla a charming creamy-white. A decided 
improvement on “ Alolesworth” ... 
Earl of Beaeonsfleld. A splendid hybrid variety, 
flowers over three inches long, carmine, with deep 
carmine corolla 
Emily Bright. 
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White tube and sepals, corolla bnght 
Ernest Renan. Large, beautiful flowers, tube and 
sepals waxy white, well reflexed; corolla rosy crimson 
•Esmeralda. Light crimson tube and sepals, corolla 
lilac blue, heavily splashed with red; very distinct ... 
Final. Tall and graceful growing variety; tube and 
sepals crimson ; corolla rich violet 
EXCELSIOR (new). Long finely recurved crimson- 
scarlet sepals, with very large bell-shaped bluish 
purple corolla ; distinct and fine ... 
•Frau Emma Topfer. A remarkable dwarf-growing 
variety, with extraordinarily large flowers, tube and 
sepals bright rosy coral, corolla rosy blush ... 
General Gordon. Very large well-formed flowers; 
corolla a bright purple, tube and sepals scarlet 
Gem of Lavington (Lye). White tubes and sepals, 
very delicately tinted with the palest pink, very stout 
carmine corolla, flushed with soft violet 
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General Garfield. Rich crimson, carmine corolla ... 
Jason. Deep crimson tube and sepals, corolla dark 
purple ; fine and distinct 
•Joseph Rosaine. Scarlet, purple corolla ; very fine... 
Jupiter. Large, beautiful double flowers; sepals well 
reflexed, brilliant scarlet ; corolla, a deep plum violet 
Loveliness (Lye). Creamy tube and pale blush sepals, 
very long and stout, pale violet pink corolla 
Lye’s Excelsior. Creamy tube and sepals, tinted 
with emerald, stout and well reflexed; rich deep rosy 
magenta corolla flushed with carmine 
•La France. Large handsome double flowers of beautiful 
form ; the sepals a bright rich scarlet, the corolla a 
bright light violet 
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New T and very choice sorts, our selection 
Twelve choice named varieties, our own selection 
Six 
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White tube and sepals; deep 
Lady Doreen Long. 
pink corolla 
•Le Cygne. Crimson tube and sepals, corolla white ... 
MADAME BRUANT. Immense flowers ; tube 
and sepals a rich scarlet, corolla a beautiful lilac- 
mauve veined with rosy red. The blooms are 
very double and of spleudid effect 
Madame Millet Robinet. Immense flowers ; tube 
and sepals waxy white; corolla rosy crimson 
•Madame Jules Chretien. Large well-shaped flowers, 
tube and sepals crimson, corolla beautiful white, 
veined red 
Madame Rozain. A truly grand variety, bearing 
immense flowers of the most elegant form ; the tube 
and sepals a deep rich scarlet crimson colour, the 
corolla a charming creamy white ; most beautiful, and 
distinct from all others ... 
•Magnificent. A grand variety, bearing immense 
double flowers. The sepals are well reflexed, of a 
bright rich crimson colour, the corolla deep violet blue 
•Merope. Fine double flowers, rich crimson scarlet, 
with dark purple corolla 
Miss Lizzie Vidler. Red, lilac corolla ; fine 
•Molesworth. Tube and sepals a bright deep carmine- 
crimson colour ; full double white corolla ... 
*M. Berraud Massard. Tube and sepals light scarlet, 
well reflexed ; the corolla very double, lilac-coloured, 
scarlet at base of petals. Splendidly-formed flow'ers . . . 
•MRS. E. G. HILL. This magnificent Fuchsia 
is one of the most splendid ever sent out: The 
plants are short-jointed and sturdy in growth, with 
beautiful dark green foliage. The flowers are of an 
immense size, the tube and sepals being of a deep 
rich scarlet colour, the corolla a beautiful creamy 
white, veined with pink ; grand variety ... 
P. RADAELLI. Enormous double corolla of 
a rich bluish-violet colour, striped and stained with 
lovely carmine. The tube and sepals are of a rich 
red, the sepals well recurved. The plant is of compact 
habit, and a very free bloomer. A grand variety 
of exceptional merit 
•President Gunther. Corolla double, of a bright 
reddish purple colour, sepals light crimson ... 
PRINCESS MAY. A most charming variety. 
The tube and sepals are of lovely creamy white, 
the corolla a brilliant carmine-rose colour. The 
plant is of a dwarf, compact habit of growth, a 
wonderfully profuse bloomer of beautiful effect 
•Raphael. Immense double flowers, tube and sepals 
crimson, corolla violet splashed with rod 
Rose of Denmark. White, pink corolla; beautiful... 
Star of Wilts. White, rosy crimson corolla; splendid 
Sunray. Foliage handsomely variegated 
Trailing Queen. Tubes and sepals bright rosy 
scarlet; corolla a deep rich violet-purple, changing 
to a fine shade of crimson ; a very free bloomer ; 
vigorous 
Walter Long (Lye). Bright pale coral-red tube and 
sepals, clear violet corolla 
Wiltshire Giant (semi-double). Stout broad tube and 
sepals of a beautiful pale orange-carmine, distinct ; 
corolla a lovely deep magenta 
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