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mosaic chequering or pencilling of its pendant 
blossoms. The several varieties are useful in 
the Spring border or in clumps in the mixed 
border. They should be deeply planted and left 
undisturbed. 
Fuchsia. — There are quite a number of small- 
flowered but extremely graceful and decorative 
Fuchsias hardy enough for outdoor cultivation in 
all but very exposed gardens, and they form delight- 
fully decorative subjects for small town gardens 
where often they might well replace the unlovely 
Aucubas, Euonymus, and Privet so commonly seen. 
Corallina, globosa, macrostemma, and Riccartoni 
are a few of the kinds available. They may be 
propagated from cuttings after the same manner 
as the large-flowered greenhouse kinds. 
If in severe winters the tops should be killed 
by frost they may be cut down to the ground-line, 
when they will generally throw up new growth 
from the base. 
Funkia. — Handsome foliage and fragrant flowers 
are the attractive features of the Funkias or Plantain 
Lilies that will thrive in soils of fairly stiff, moisture- 
holding character. There are varieties with huge 
glaucous leaves of almost tropical luxuriance, F. 
Sieboldiana, lancifolia, and subcordata being of this 
character. 
There are also beautifully variegated forms in 
both yellow and white combinations with green, 
and the flowers range from white to rosy lilac and 
