FUCHSIA. 
(Task.) 
HE Fuchsia, a native of Chili, was named after 
Leonard Fuchs, a noted German botanist. 
As it is quite a modern addition to our gardens, 
there is little poetry as yet belonging to it. 
THE FUCHSIA. 
ANON. 
Beautiful child of a tropic sun, 
How hast thou been from thy far home won, 
To bloom in our chilly northern air, 
Where the frost may blight, or the wind may tear ? 
Dost thou not pine for thine own dear land, 
For its cloudless skies—for its zephyrs bland, 
For its graceful flowers of matchless hues, 
Bright as the dreams of an Eastern muse ? 
Dost thou not pine for the perfumed air, 
For the gorgeous birds that are hovering there ; 
For the starry skies, and the silver moon, 
And the grasshopper’s shrill and unchanging tune ? 
