FUCHSIAS.
TMs is a' purge "gejms of shrubby flowering plants, comprising aboiit. fifty species- and an endless number of varieties . IFhe merits of the 3?uchsia as an adornment to the greenhOTise and dwelling- house are so well known as to need no further enlargement upon here, for fr.om the time of its introductidn a'b out a hundred years ago until now its popularity ■ has been * deservedly great. The skill ,of • the hybridist has been well repaid in connection with .the Fuciisia;, as .for more than fifty years after its introduction there was very .little variation in colour or form, most of the flowers were red and purple, "while the residue had/whitish-tubes and sejpals with rose-coloured corollas; all were, moreover, singles, but now we have a large, proportion of double-, flowered varieties and-'a very great, variety in colour and in form amoag both singles and doubles,
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Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 34, 30 January 1930, Page 9
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145FUCHSIAS. Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 34, 30 January 1930, Page 9
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