PLANTS WORTH GROWING 213 
knob-like crowns and a number of brown cord-like 
roots. These must be cleanly severed from the 
plant, and may be potted in good compost, with a 
proportion of peat and sand as well as good fibrous 
loam. 
Zauschneria. — The last plant with which we have 
to deal is appropriately one of the brightest and 
most distinct of all. Nicknamed the Calif ornian 
Fuchsia, there is some slight, but only a slight, 
resemblance to some of the narrow-tubed Fuchsias 
such as Fuchsia fulgens and triphylla ; but bright 
as these may be, the vermilion tubes of Zauschneria 
are brighter still. The plant has woody stems 
clothed with hairy leaves, and if thoroughly at 
home in a well-drained, elevated position with a 
good depth of not too heavy soil, the stems and 
flower spikes will run to a height of two feet, the 
whole plant in August and September being aglow 
like fire with its shining scarlet flowers. Cuttings 
severed at the axils of the main stems will root in 
a compost of half soil and half sand, and they should 
be grown on until they have well filled three-inch 
pots with roots. In very bleak places a little 
bracken or heather may with advantage be placed 
around the plant in Winter, but its reputation for 
tenderness is rather due to its elegantly fragile 
appearance than to inability to survive our average 
Winters, for even when cut to the ground by severe 
frost it will generally break up from the base in 
Spring. 
