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NEW VAEIETIES OF FUCHSIA.-PHLOXES IN POTS, 
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NEW VARIETIES OF FUCHSIA. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
(T is quite evident that the well-directed efforts of E. Banks, Esq., in the rais¬ 
ing of new varieties of Fuchsia have been crowned with the most complete 
success, and that he is now far ahead of all rivals in this particular field. 
The opposite plate furnishes the proof of this assertion. The improvements 
which Mr. Banks has been carrying on step by step for nearly 30 years have 
culminated, so far as the public are permitted to share with him, in Splendour, 
one of the varieties which we now figure. We use the foregoing qualification, 
because it is, as we learn, an axiom with this grower never to part with any new 
variety until he has obtained a better one of the same type. The dark-coloured 
varieties in the accompanying plate represent novelties from Mr. Banks’ collection, 
now in the hands of Mr. Oannell for distribution, while the double white is a 
portrait of one of Mr. G-. Smith’s new varieties. 
Our fig. 1 represents the variety named John McEleoy, which is considered 
to be a grand improvement on such sorts as Lord Derby and Lord Elcho. The 
sepals are broad, thick, and well reflexed, and the very long barrel-shaped corolla 
is of large size, and of an intense violet, occasionally striped. Fig. 2 represents 
Splendour, alluded to above, and which has the largest, intense dark purple corolla 
of any variety yet sent out. In some blossoms which we measured in the autumn 
of last year the diameter of the expanded corolla was fully 3 in. It has a bright 
scarlet tube, with sepals of the same colour, reflexing to form a perfect crown, and 
of great substance, while the plant is a strong bushy grower, and a free bloomer. 
John Bright, represented at fig. 3, is an improvement on Beauty of Sholden ; the 
reflex of the fine, stout scarlet sepals is perfect, while the mauve-tinted, cup- 
shaped corolla is the n;ost regular and perfect of any variety of that colour. In 
fig. 4, named Avalanche, we have certainly one of the finest double whites which 
have yet been produced. It comes from Mr. G. Smith’s collection, and, as shown 
by him, was of excellent free-blooming habit, with very large and very full blossoms, 
the sepals being of a somewhat rosy tint of scarlet, and the corolla large, dense, 
regularly formed, and of the purest white. No finer Fuchsias than these, in their 
respective sections, need be desired.—M. 
PHLOXES IN POTS. 
lOWEVER warmly I sanction and admire the plan of exhibiting these 
handsome, hardy, herbaceous plants in pots, I find it is not so well to grow 
them in that way. The plants make too much root to be grown in 
8-in. pots, and become too soon pot-bound ; such plants in many in¬ 
stances look sickly, while the flowers are consequently small, and their colours 
are not fully developed. Last season I potted a lot of plants early in spring, 
for the Eoyal Horticultural Society’s Exhibition at Manchester, but as the time 
3rd series.—III. e 
