. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. '^^. THE FUCHSIA. Gakden Variety. J-IM i'lU'lisia is beyond doubt one ut the most beautiful of our familiar garden flowers. Now, everybody knows howbeautifu' it is, and as gilding refined yold is a wasteful exeess, we ^(ilemnly promise not to waste another word in general re- marks on that matter. But of its interest? It has no place in history, and no poet of re- Udwn has written an ode in its honour. No. But it represents Ihe floral wealth of certain of the richest and poorest parts (if the earthâ 's surface. It ex- tends
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. '^^. THE FUCHSIA. Gakden Variety. J-IM i'lU'lisia is beyond doubt one ut the most beautiful of our familiar garden flowers. Now, everybody knows howbeautifu' it is, and as gilding refined yold is a wasteful exeess, we ^(ilemnly promise not to waste another word in general re- marks on that matter. But of its interest? It has no place in history, and no poet of re- Udwn has written an ode in its honour. No. But it represents Ihe floral wealth of certain of the richest and poorest parts (if the earthâ 's surface. It ex- tends as a genus along the Paci- fic sea-board of South America, from sunny Cnenca to the cold and cloud\- Falkland Islands, and if aided with just a little warmth would no doubt run into fhe Ijand of Desolation, and compete for supremacy as a vegetable curiosity with that nondescript thing the Kerguelen cabbage. But it loves a land of luxury nevertheless, for we meet with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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