THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
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you would add a list of fuchsias, with directions for their culture, and 
where they may be got, and about what prices, you would greatly oblige 
A Lover of Flowers and Fuchsias. 
September 23 rd , 1841. 
As early a notice as possible of this question in your work, the 66 Ladies’ 
Magazine of Gardening,” would be very acceptable. 
To answer my correspondent exactly as to the price of fuchsias, and 
where they can be obtained, would subject me to the advertisement duty; 
and to give a list of all the different kinds, including the different hybrids 
and varieties, would be very difficult, as they are varying every day by 
the introduction of new seedlings. Perhaps the best for a small garden 
are the following — 
Fuchsia globosa , a dwarf plant, and abundant flowerer, killed down to 
the ground in winter, but coming up again in spring. This is the cheapest 
kind, and it is common in every nursery. 
F. discolor , the Port Famine Fuchsia, a tall shrub, flowering abun¬ 
dantly, and the hardiest of all the kinds, very seldom sustaining any 
injury from frost. 
F. fulgens , a splendid bush, growing to a large size in rich ground in 
the open air during summer, but requiring protection during winter. 
F. corymbiflora , a tall plant, requiring the same treatment as the 
preceding species ; rather dear at present. 
F. radicans , the Peruvian Fuchsia, a climbing plant, with beautiful 
flowers. This species is quite new, and as yet rare and dear. 
F. mrgata and F. coccinea , old and cheap species, forming large 
bushes; which will live in the open air during summer, but which are 
killed to the ground every winter. 
F. gracilis , an old species, rather more tender than the last, but which 
wdien trained as a standard, and then suffered to form a head, makes a 
beautiful weeping tree. 
Of the hybrids, F. Chandlerii , from F. fulgens and F. discolor; 
F. Standishii , from F. fulgens and F. globosa ; and F. Youelli —are the 
handsomest. 
F. arborescens is a greenhouse shrub with small purplish flowers, and 
will not flower in the open air. F. microphylla and F. cylindrica are 
small-flowered kinds, which are nearly hardy. 
Fig. 80 (lent to me by Captain Mangles), is a working plan for a small 
garden, with a list of plants which will flower from May to September; 
but if this should not suit my correspondent, the ground may be divided 
into beds, and planted in front with snowdrops and crocuses; behind 
which may be hyacinths and other bulbs. Alternately with spots of these 
