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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ April, 
and melting this season with me ; its season being from February till March. 
Ne 'plus Meuris , although an ugly-looking sort, keeps well till March and April,. 
and is then a valuable melting Pear. Susette de Bavay is a remarkably great 
bearer on the Pear stock, and is worthy of a wall, for its late-keeping qualities 
and good flavour. The old favourite, Beurre Rctnce , is not planted so much as it 
ought to be for its size and flavour, and for keeping, as it often does, to May and 
June. Leon le Clerc de Laval is the very latest sort with me, but it is often 
not melting; I have specimens of it in the fruit-room here of the growth of 
1873, and they are yet as hard as stones. Of that valuable late culinary Apple, the 
Alfriston , I have likewise of the same season’s growth some specimens left, quite 
good, and fit for use. The French Oral) is another Apple that keeps quite sound 
for two years in a good fruit-room.— William Tillery, Welbech. 
FUCHSIA CORYMBIFLORA. 
® HIS grand old late summer-flowering species, with its noble foliage, bold 
growth, and large and striking corymbs of drooping flowers, is so well 
f worthy of general cultivation, and is so handsome as a conservatory plant 
during the autumn months, that it is a real pity it is so little grown. 
This, and the equally useful, though less aristocratic-looking, Fuchsia fulgens , have 
had to give place to the florists’ varieties, as they are termed, and it is unfortunate 
in many respects that it is so, as they are each of them a marked instance of 
individuality of character. I have bloomed in my greenhouse a plant of a pale- 
coloured form of F. corymbiflora , named virginedis , in which the tube is almost 
white, the sepals deep pink, and the corolla rich deep carmine. The corymb of 
flowers which was put forth at the extremity of my plant remained in bloom 
for a considerable period in autumn, the flowers hanging down in a graceful 
manner. From around the base of the flower-stem sprang three shoots, about 
15 in. in length, and each of these, throwing out a corymb of flowers at its 
extremity, kept up the blooming period until Christmas. 
F, corymbiflora should not be over-potted, and this holds good also of F. 
fulgens. Both species appear to like to fill their pots with roots, and then they 
grow and flower profusely. If over-potted, a period of stagnation sets in during 
a considerable part of the summer, the energies of the plant are employed in root- 
growth, and when leaf-growth commences a good part of the flowering season has 
passed away. I shift my plant in the spring, just when it commences to make 
growth, disturbing as little of the roots as possible, and using the next size 
larger pot. It should not be in too rich a soil. This holds good of many of the 
common varieties of the Fuchsia , but it is particularly true of F. corymbiflora. 
Some good fibry yellow loam, some leaf-mould, a little manure, and some sand, 
make an excellent compost. A little very weak manure-water can be given when 
the plants are in flower. I may add that F. fulgens (growing in a pot that is 
a mass of roots) bloomed continuously in terminal corymbs all the summer. I 
gave it an abundance of water in drying weather,—E. Dean. 
