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away the soil, and prune back the roots ; tlien pot them into 

 pots as small as will hold their roots. Place them in a moist 

 temperature, rather warmer than a greenhouse (about 55°), 

 and as the young shoots are produced thin away the super- 

 fluous ones, leaving enough to furnish the stem completely 

 with pendent lateral shoots. Twelve-inch pots are large 

 enough to bloom ver}- large Fuchsias in. Some of the stifter- 

 growing varieties, including several of the foreign species, are 

 not adapted for pyramidal training : these must be shaped 

 into a neat spreading bush. Fuchsia seeds should be sown 

 in March in a warm frame, and the plants nursed on like 

 cuttings, only, as the object of raising seedlings is to obtain 

 improved sorts, they should not be shifted beyond a five-inch 

 pot until the first blooms indicate if they are worth better 

 treatment. They will do this in the early part of the summer. 

 Cultivators are too apt to grow Fuchsias in very rich compost, 

 and to over-excite them with heat, in order to increase their 

 size; but the consequence is that the beauty and symmetry of 

 the plants are destroyed. The plants are much more compact 

 and of better form if they are grown entirely without artificial 

 heat; they should, moreover, be grown near the glass, and 

 turned round whenever they lean towards the light. Under 

 this treatment they will not grow rapidly, because they will 

 have nothing to excite them ; but they will be close, well 

 furnished with leaves, short-jointed, and handsome in form. 

 Fuchsias may be grown in a cold frame as well as a green- 

 house all the summer ; or a great part of the time they may 

 be in the open air, in any part sheltered from the wind. The 

 garden sorts are so diversified that it is useless to particularise 

 them : those that are best one year are usually surpassed the 

 following by more novel varieties. Many of the original 

 species of Fuchsia are very distinct and showy plants, and 

 present many variations of habit and appearance from those 

 raised in gardens. 



FUMARIA. See Dielytra. 



FUNKIA. [Liliaceae.] Yerj pretty hardy herbaceous 

 perennials. They grow freely in any light common soil, and 

 require no particular culture ; but they must have a warm 

 dryish situation to induce them to bloom freely. Increased 

 by division of the roots. The best is F. grandifiora. 



