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Fuchsia (To the species and varieties)

To the species and varieties described on pp. 31-5, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

F. ampliata (ample). fl. scarlet, solitary, or two or three together in axillary clusters; calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; petals shorter than the calyx lobes, obtusely quadrangular. June. l. 2in. to 3in. long, usually drooping and ternately whorled, elliptic-oblong, acute at both ends, denticulate, glabrous, sometimes pubescent beneath; petioles 1/3in. to 1/2in. long. Stem often decumbent below. h. 3ft. to 5ft. Andes of Ecuador, 1877. (B. M. 6839.) Varieties. The Fuchsia is one of the best-known green-house and conservatory flowering plants, and it is also the most graceful of bedding-out plants. Handsome, tall specimens, trained to centre stems, and placed in the centre of beds in the geometrical flower garden, have an excellent effect. So many splendid varieties have been raised that it is difficult to further improve them. The varieties with single corollas are the handsomest; indeed, some of the double forms are most inelegant, and may be classed as floral abortions. They may for convenience be divided into classes thus: Single-flowered. Varieties with White Tube and Sepals, and Red and Pink Corolla. BEAUTY OF LAVINGTON; EMILY BRIGHT, a well-formed variety; EXCELSIOR, creamy tube and sepals; EYNSFORD GEM, corolla purplish-rose, petals neatly reflexed; LUSTRE IMPROVED, corolla orange-scarlet, a richer-coloured form of LUSTRE; LYE'S PERFECTION; MIZPAH, corolla distinct purplish-crimson; MR. F. BRIGHT; MRS. F. GLASS.

Varieties with Red and Scarlet Tube and Sepals, and Purplish, Bluish, or Mauve Corolla. AMIE, sepals crimson, unusually long, corolla dark purple; DR. SANKEY, corolla and tube nearly the same colour, rich reddish-crimson; ELEGANCE, sepals crimson, twisted like a ram's horn, corolla purple; KING OF THE FUCHSIAS, a very useful decorative variety, with crimson sepals and purplish corolla; SALOPIA, sepals crimson, corolla pale purple, widely opened; SWANLEY GEM, tube and sepals scarlet, corolla purplish-rose. Double-flowered. BERLINER KIND, tube and sepals coral-red, corolla pure white, very double; BOREATTON, tube and sepals crimson, corolla dark purple, large and very double; CREPUSCULE, corolla faintly striped deep red; ELIZABETH MARSHALL, tube and sepals scarlet, corolla white, free-flowering; FRAUEMMA TOPFER, tube and sepals coral-red, corolla rosy-blush; LA FRANCE, tube and sepals deep red, corolla bluish-purple, very double; MADAME JULES CHRETIEN, tube and sepals scarlet, corolla white.