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the wall, and just before the buds commence swelling syringe the trees well 
with a solution of Gishurst compound, 2 ozs. to' the gallon of water. Under 
this treatment mildew will not attack any of the forward growth, but will 
sometimes appear on the late autumn growth, which may be kept rather severely 
pinched back, and syringing with the compound frequently resorted fo. One 
thing it is important to remember: the enemy must be attacked on its first 
approaches^ for if allowed to entrench itself the difficulty of dislodging it is 
greatly increased. 
Aphides and red spider may be kept under by frequent syringings with 
water alone, if used as a preventive; but if required as a curative it must 
have the addition of tobacco or Gishurst compound. In this, as in all other 
remedial measures, “ Prevention is better than cure.” 
Redleaf. John Cox. 
FUCHSIAS. 
I imagine I hear the readers of the Florist and Pomologist exclaim, 
“What can any one have to say fresh upon this subject?” AVell, I must 
acknowledge that to do so is a matter of no small difficulty, for if there is one 
class of plants more than another of which the cultivation has been well ex¬ 
pounded, it is surely T the Fuchsia. Within the comparatively few years which 
I have been engaged in gardening I have seen immense strides made, not so 
much in the cultivation as in the production of greatly improved varieties. 
Those who recollect Carolina, Oxoniensis, Riccartonii, Dr. Jephson, arid the 
few other decent varieties that were once grown, and will mentally compare 
them with the best of the kinds now in cultivation, will at once acknowledge 
this, although their ideas and my own as to what are the best may be very 
different. I am not, however, going to say much about what are the best 
varieties of the present day, simply because in this matter, as in most others, 
tastes differ, and what I may conceive to be the best twelve or twenty-four 
may be immediately supplemented by some one else with as many more of a 
totally different description. There can, however, be no question that there 
are varieties enough to suit all tastes, whether the preference be given to small 
blooms and many of them, or larger blooms and few in number; dark or 
light, double or single, reflexed or not; and if none of these will satisfy those 
who are fastidious, let them describe to some enterprising cultivator what they 
do want, and he will soon produce a variety to their liking. 
I have just now a lot of verv nice pyramidal Fuchsias, averaging 4 feet 
high, mostly in 12-sized pots. I am rather proud of these plants, and as they 
are now showing an abundance of bloom, I may well look forward, so far as 
the Fuchsia is concerned, to being somewhat gay during the ensuing autumn. 
It may be of interest to give a list of the sorts I have, although I am by no means 
prepared to affirm that they are the best, but such as they are I give them. 
The kinds are La Favorita, a splendid dark flower and good pot plant; Percy, 
dark, double, one of the best for pots ; Hugh Mollon, a very large Guiding 
Star, with the foliage of Venus de Medici; Princess of Wales and Sensation, 
with greatly distended corollas; Ami Hoste, flaked, double; Lord Elcho, good 
dark : Schiller and Rose of Castile, two of the freest light-bloomed Fuchsias 
in cultivation; Venus de Medici, Guiding Star, Her Majesty, Maid of Kent, 
Silver Swan, Annie, rather coarse, and Fair Oriana, these are all light-blooming 
kinds and well known. There are also Rifleman and Imperial, dark doubles; 
Marchioness of Bath, white corolla; Senator and Prince Imperial, single dark, 
both splendid pot plants ; Souvenir de Chiswick, Duchess of Lancaster, Merry 
Maid, and a few others. 
