SINGLE FUCHSIAS TRAILING 
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MANTILLA. Trailer with soft willowy 
branching growth. Bronzy foliage. The 
flowers are deep carmine. Tubes 3 inches 
in length. Petals are spreading with 
pagoda-like sepals. Free bloomer. 
MARINKA. Almost a self color with 
rosy scarlet corolla and crimson scarlet 
sepals. 
MISS CALIFORNIA. Single to semi- 
double. Corolla faintest pink. Sepals 
medium pink, shaded with deeper pink. 
Does best in cooler weather. 
MRS. VICTOR REITER. A long tubed 
Single bi-color. Corolla a pure crimson 
fading to white at base. Slender sepals 
and long tube of creamy white. 
PINK ELEGANCE. Patented by Waltz 
Gardens, No. 143,684. Tube and long 
upturned sepals are salmon pink on the 
inside, flushed pink on the outside. The 
bell-shaped corolla has overlapping and‘ 
often pleated petals of bright phlox pink 
spreading wide at tips of petals. Prefers 
morning sun, or filtered light. 
POTENTATE (Reiter) 1954 introduc- 
tion. An all-purpose arching grower, 
suitable as a climber or for a hanger. 
Huge flowers of Rubeo type, the long 
stemmed buds are rose madder tapering 
to pale rose at the tips. Long tubes and 
long recurved sepals of rose madder. 
PURPLE SAGE. Single saucer shaped 
deep purple corolla opening perfectly 
flat with recurved deep red sepals. 
Medium grower. 
RED CAP (Hodges) 1954 introduction. 
Large single flowing corolla of a showy 
cerise rose with a flush of orange at 
the darker petal edges. Thick tube and 
sepals bright red. Best used as a hanger 
Where the many wide open flowers are 
displayed to greatest advantage. 
RED SPIDER. The spidery flowers have 
a long tube and exceedingly long nar- 
row horizontal sepals of deepest crim- 
son; long downward pointing petals of 
deep rose madder veined and margined 
deep crimson. 
FUCHSIAS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES 
If you are planning a fuchsia garden or wish to train fuchsias tree 
shape, pillar, trellis, etc., we would be pleased to help you select the 
proper varieties. 
Join The American Fuchsia Society! They publish a monthly bulletin 
which is helpful to fuchsia lovers and shade gardeners. Dues at $2.60 
per calendar year. Address: Mrs. Ellen O’Brien, 263 Cayuga Avenue, 
San Francisco, California. 
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