Plates 270 , 271 . 
NEW FUCHSIAS. 
In order to give a better illustration of the new Fuchsias 
which have been raised by our friend and neighbour Edward 
Banks, Esq., of Sholden, near Deal, the most successful hybridi¬ 
zer of this beautiful tribe of plants in England, w 7 e have given 
a double Plate, containing four of the best varieties of the pre¬ 
sent season, which will be let out in the ensuing spring by 
Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son. 
While many strange sports have taken place in Fuchsias, 
and those with double corollas and white corollas have found 
favour with many, there are those who, like our friend, still 
mainly confine their attention to the more regular and normal 
style of flower, and it is hardly possible to conceive that much 
advance can be made on those which have been already raised. 
Yet w 7 e are warned against making any rash assertions on this 
point; they have been so often made before, and have so often 
been showm to be fallacious, that it is impossible for us to say 
w 7 hat further advance may yet be made. We ventured the 
other day to make a somewhat similar remark to Mr. Hoyle, of 
Beading, as to his beautiful Pelargoniums, and he at once 
pointed out many particulars in which advance might be made, 
and w 7 e have in his set of this year a remarkable proof of the 
truth of this, his scarlet flower Charles Turner being the first 
of that colour that has been raised having a white throat,-— 
a feature which adds greatly to the beauty of the flower. 
Mr. Banks raises every year five or six thousand seedlings 
from carefully hybridized seed, and if, out of that number, he 
obtains eight or ten of first-rate quality, he is satisfied, but he 
is not content with one year’s trial; he knows w 7 ell that seed¬ 
lings are oftentimes very fickle, and hence his first selections 
