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give manure water once or twice a week in order to ob¬ 
tain large and finely-colored flowers. 
The only insects to which Fuchsias are subject is the 
green fly and red spider. A slight fumigation of tobacco 
will destroy the former, and a free use of the syringe 
the latter ; but if the plants have been as freely syringed 
as they should have been, few if any insects will make 
their appearance. 
The varieties of the Fuchsia a-re numerous. Most all 
of our garden kinds are hybrids from ancestors intro¬ 
duced from South America and Mexico very many 
years ago. The first Fuchsia, F. coccinnea was intro¬ 
duced from Chili in 1788. There are so many varieties 
in cultivation that it is very difficult to make a selection 
of the most desirable, but those enumerated below are 
the most distinct: 
Avalanche (Henderson’s).—Deep-scarlet tube and se¬ 
pals with a very large deep-purple corolla; a very free- 
flowering variety, with fine pyramidal habit and having 
glossy-green foliage. Double. 
Avalanche (Smiths).—Scarlet tube and sepals, and a 
very large white corolla; a distinct and beautiful variety. 
Double. 
Elm City. —Sepals rich crimson, enclosing the corolal 
and forming globular balls before the flowers expand; 
of dwarf compact habit. Double. 
La Neige. —Sepals rich carmine, snow-white corolla. 
Double. 
Snoiv Fairy. —Sepals glossy red, corolla pure white; 
one of the free-flowering varieties. Double. 
Tower of London. —Carmine-scarlet sepals, elegantly 
recurved, and a very large, deep, plum-colored corolla, 
which is occasionally striped with carmine-rose; an 
effective and beautiful flower. Double. 
Aurora Superba. —Tube and sepals salmon-yellow, 
corolla of an orange-scarlet, suffused with salmon; a 
very free-blooming variety. Distinct and fine. 
Alba coccinea. —Tube dark crimson, sepals white, 
and a violet corolla. The flowers are of medium size, 
and are moreover freely produced. Distinct. 
Arabella Improved. —White tube and sepals, with a 
rosy-pink, reflexed corolla; a strong-growing variety, 
and one that will soon make a fine specimen. A fine 
variety for amateurs. 
Covent Garden White. —White tube and sepals, 
with a Rose corolla; a variety of free growth and a pro¬ 
fuse bloomer. Fine. 
Carl Halt. —White tube and sepals, the corolla being 
striped red and white; a very beautiful and distinct free- 
flowering variety. 
Earl of Beaconsfield. —This is one of the best of the 
newer sorts, being of vigorous growth as well as very 
free flowering, the blooms being three inches hi length; 
the tube and sepals are of a light-rosy carmine, 
the corolla being deep carmine. Distinct and 
fine. 
England's Glory. —Waxy-white tube and sepals, 
bright-pink corolla; an old but a very beautiful 
variety. 
Prince Imperial. —A fine early-flowering variety, with 
elegantly-reflexed sepals and dark corolla of dwarf 
compact habit. 
Rose of Castile. —Tube and sepals blush-white, corolla 
large, rosy-purple; a very beautiful variety. 
Rose of Denmark. —Waxy-white tube and sepals, 
corolla clear-pink, belted with carmine. 
Speciosa. —Pale-red tube and sepals ; a very popular 
and well-known sort. A standard variety for winter 
flowering. 
Sedan. —A very distinct variety, the corolla and se¬ 
pals being of nearly the same color, a rosy pink. A 
very free-flowering variety. 
Wave of Light. —Of dwarf, bushy habit, with beauti¬ 
ful golden foliage ; the tube and sepals being of a rich 
scarlet with a dark blue corolla. When well grown a 
perfect gem. 
Ricemosa. —A very distinct species not growing over 
eighteen inches in height, forming a round bush, each 
shoot being terminated with a raceme of orange-scarlet, 
wax-like flowers. 
Pumila or Tom Thumb. —At first sight this appears to 
be anything but a Fuchsia, yet it is one and a very pretty 
one too, both the leaves and flowers being very small, 
the latter about three-fourths of an inch in length and 
of a deep red color—a distinct and pretty variety. 
Sunray. —The best variety with variegated foliage in 
cultivation, the leaves being of a bright crimson, white 
and bronzy-green in equal parts. The flowers are of 
little beauty, the tube and sepals being scarlet and the 
corolla purple. 
F. Racemosa, Pumila, and Sunray should be grown 
in the greenhouse or window-garden at all times; 
grown outside they are perfectly worthless. 
Chas. E. Parnell. 
ORCHIDS AT HOME. 
PART II. 
We have another classical personage commemorated 
in Calypso borealis, though comparison between the 
entertainer of Ulysses and a little bog Orchid seems 
somewhat far-fetched. It is a pretty little thing, with 
a solid bulb, throwing up a slightly heart-shaped leaf, 
and a short scape bearing a single, showy flower, 
variegated purple, pink and yellow. The lip is larger 
than the rest of the flower, sac-shaped, like a Cypripe- 
dium. It is a very scarce and local plant, found in wet 
bogs through the Northern States. 
The fa mil y of Spiranthes, or Ladies’ Tresses, is a very 
dainty and interesting genus, though entirely neglected 
by our woodland poets; a remarkable circumstance, 
considering the beauty of the plant and the suggestive¬ 
ness of its common name. It throws up a leafy stem, 
from six to twenty inches high, bearing a spike resem¬ 
bling an ear of wheat; the small white fragrant flowers 
are arranged spirally upon it. The name, Spiranthes, 
is suggested by this. The old English name of “ Ladies’ 
Traces ” was suggested by the resemblance of the twisted 
spikes to the cords or laces, called “ traces,” with which 
mediaeval dames girded their robes, before pins or but¬ 
tons were invented. As this word has become almost 
obsolete in this connection, the original meaning has 
