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lines. H. purpureo-fusca is a peculiar species with dull purplish 
corollas and brownish crimson crowns. This with the preceding 
would grow well under similar treatment to H. campanulata, but 
they are comparatively rare in cultivation now, and neither can 
be considered as at all approaching that in beauty. 
FRUIT PROSPECTS. 
In Scotland March came in like a lamb, hut soon changed to a 
leonine character. So keen were the north winds that advancing 
vegetation, more than ordinarily tender owing to the mildness of 
the winter, had a rough check; and in the more exposed localities 
Broccolis disappeared, while even in the favoured spots they were 
much injured. But “there is no great loss without some com¬ 
pensating profit; ” the winds and frosts that damaged vegetables 
and was hard on the forward spring flowers, came in time to check 
the too forward blossom buds. The consequence is that Pears 
and Plums are only blooming now over four-fifths of the country, 
while the Apple blossom will not be out for some time. This 
leads us to hope for a better crop than has been had for some 
Fig. 92 .—Hoya Campanulata. 
years, for, despite the wet summer and late autumn, blossoms are winter did good in enabling the buds to become metamorphosed, 
particularly abundant even on standard trees. Possibly the mild as a correspondent some time ago supposed w y as the case with 
