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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 31, 1858. 
information. Most of the bulbs you allude to begin to grow 
about one time, but they flower at different periods, and 
that greatly in proportion to the treatment they receive, as 
respects heat, &c. Now, in your border they would receive 
similar treatment. With very little heat in the house, your 
Crocus, Snowdrops, Dog’s-tooth Yiolets, &c., would be in 
bloom at the time you desire; but it would require a con¬ 
siderable degree of heat to bring in Hyacinths, Tulips, and 
Narcissus at the same time, which would be too much for 
Cyclamens ; and, if they were not started early, the moisture 
would be too much for them. Better pot your Hyacinths, 
Narcissus, Tulips, &c., as soon as you can, and give a little 
potted assistance in December and January, and then plant 
out. 
Wo are not acquainted with Tacsonid ignea , and should be 
glad of information respecting it.] 
FUCHSIAS. 
“ A Love? of Fuchsias, who has little opportunity of seeing 
the collections of others, would be glad to know if there are 
any really better Fuchsias, in their different classes, in cul¬ 
tivation than the following :— White Varieties.— Duchess 
of Lancaster, England's Glory , Clio, Silver Sioan, Fair 
Oriana, Maid of Kent, and Countess of Fglinton. Red 
Varieties. — Brilliant, Souvenir de ChisicicTc, Little Treasure , 
Tristram Shandy, Ftoile du Ford, Little Bo-Peep, General 
Williams, Prince Albert, and Wonderful .” 
[The best answer to the above is the following memo¬ 
randum from the third part of the “Illustrated Bouquet,” a 
periodical which want of space prevents our more particularly 
noticing just now. 
“ The following varieties of the florists’ race of Fuchsias 
are recommended as exhibition flowers : — 
“ Crimson, with violet and blue corolla.— Prince Albert , 
Souvenir de Chiswiclc, Prince of Wales, and Wonderful . 
“ Crimson, with large cup-shaped violet and blue corolla. 
—Catharine Mayes, Charlemagne , Donna Joaquina , and 
Tristram Shandy. 
“ Crimson, with black-violet corolla.— Ftoile du Ford, and 
Emperor Napoleon. 
“Red, with double purple corolla.— Mendersonii , Piolet, 
and Malalcoff. 
“ Red, with white corolla.— Mrs. Story , Countess of Bur¬ 
lington, and Queen Victoria. 
“White, with light scarlet corolla.— Queen of Hanover , 
Fair Diana, and Royal Victoria. 
“ White, with scarlet and crimson corolla.— England's 
Glory, and Clio. 
“ White and Blush White, with violet and lavender 
corolla.— Venus de Medici, Silver Swan, Fairest of the 
Fair, Maid of Kent, and Duchess of Lancaster .” 
The following four new splendid Fuchsias are beautifully 
figured in that number of the “ Illustrated ” :— 
“1. Prince Fredericlc William of Prussia. A noble 
flower ; tube bright carmine red, much recurved; corolla a 
wide cup, blue, changing to plum colour. 
“ 2. Rose of Castille. Blush-white tube ; corolla purple, 
cup-shaped. 
3. Loch Catrine. A very beautiful variety for general 
decorative purposes ; sepals rich, bright, coral red, or crimson 
scarlet, broad and recurved, finely contrasting with the very 
deep violet, almost black, cup-shaped corolla. 
“ 4. Guiding Star. This variety is free-branching, and 
drooping in habit; the flower-tube slender; blush-tinted 
white ; sepals broad, white, gracefully recurved ; corolla cup¬ 
shaped, of a rich violet-purple colour.” 
Here, then, is the cream of twenty-five years’ breeding in- 
and-in among the Mexican Fuchsias, without a drop of the 
blood of fulgens, corymbijlora, or any of the large-leaved or 
long-tubed species. 
The next question about Fuchsias is,—Which are the best 
six, or ten, or twelve kinds, to make standards of, lor planting 
out in the garden during the summer, and to be kept halt 
dry, away from the frost, during the winter ? Carolina is 
the best one, we know of, for that purpose, out of a large 
number of kinds wo have seen as standards. And the last 
question we should like to hear discussed by “ Our own Cor¬ 
respondents,” is,—Which are the best kinds of Fuchsias, for 
Using as climbers and pillar plants, in the conservatory ? 
Here, again, Carolina comes in as the best, to our knowledge, 
Scarletina the next best, and Don Giovanni the third best. 
Serratifolia taking the lead through the winter. 
A portion of the roof of the conservatoi'y at the Experi¬ 
mental Garden has been covered for the last six or seven 
Vears with Fuchsia Carolina , and F. scarletina , and nothing 
more beautiful and appropriate can be conceived. The stems 
are nearly as thick as one’s wrist at the surface of the ground. 
| They shoot straight up to within a foot of the roof, without a 
branch, in the centre of the house, and there branch out in 
large circles, the branches being trained to wires. They are 
close spurred at the end of N ovember, the time they cease, or 
nearly cease blooming; every leaf is then stripped off, and 
they give no shade during the winter. They are in bloom 
again by the 1st of May, and give the best kind of summer 
shade to the rest of the plants below. They have never been 
! syringed, but the air of the house is kept cool and moist; 
first, with the hexagon netting, where the climbers do not 
eover; and, secondly, by a liberal use of the watering-pot. 
I Camellias, Azaleas, and Rhododendrons are kept in the house 
all the summer, in order to have them in bloom through the 
winter, without forcing. The red spider has never touched 
: any of the plants.] 
AUTUMN-SOWN ANNUALS. 
“ A Subscriber wishes to be informed when is the best time 
for sowing annuals in the autumn ? which are the most 
suitable kinds ? whether they require any protection in the 
winter ? and what is the best soil for them ? ” 
[Annuals that are sown in the autumn, to bloom in the 
flower garden, at the end of spring, do not require protection 
in winter; but there are greenhouse annuals, for sowing in 
the autumn, and they must have greenhouse plants’ protec¬ 
tion. But every one of the hardy autumnal-sown annuals 
would do better if they were in pots and pits, or greenhouses, 
under skilful management. It is now high time to sow 
autumn annuals. The two Silenes, pink and white, are up 
with us, and so are the pink and white Virginia Stock. The 
Collinsias and Gill a tricolor are also up, and some are yet to 
be sown. By the way, all ours that are up are from self-sown 
seed, up and down the mixed borders. We find they do 
better with less care than the same kinds sown in the best 
manner ; poor thin soil is the best to sow them in. The soil 
is such as has not been stirred more than two inches for the 
last two years. It is not too late to sow herbaceous Cal¬ 
ceolarias, the best bedders of all the annuals. When they 
first appeared, we sowed ten thousand of them ten times told 
as late as the 20th September j and we prefer September-sown 
Calceolarias to this day, but they are not so hardy, nor quite 
so good for the beds, as they were twenty-five years back. 
The Nemophilas, Clarkias, Goodetias, Silenes, Collinsias, 
Virginia Stock, and Gillias, are the best of all the annuals to 
shift for themselves. Erysimum Perofshianum is also a safe 
and very good one. Limnanthes Douglasii is a nice thing, in 
poorisli soil. This would be a good time to begin Lobelia 
speciosa from seed, instead of cuttings, or to begin with. A i 
sixpenny’s worth of it, to be sown and treated in every respect 
like Calceolaria and Mimulus seedlings, w'ould make plants 
enough for a garden of ten acres by planting out in time next ! 
May, and it is far easier to do them in winter than in the 
hurry of spring work.] 
LAYERING ROSES—CARNATIONS— MOWING 
MACHINE. 
“ Last November,” writes A Country Subscriber , “ I made 
a good bed of Roses (hybrid perpetuals). They have done 
well, and made some strong shoots. Shall I layer down 
these shoots this autumn, or next spring, or shall 1 cut them 
away P Of course the shoots I refer to are from the Roses 
themselves, not from the Briars on which some of them are 
grafted. Can you tell me of a good, hardy, perpetual, yellow 
Rose ?” 
