THE FUCHSIA 



The Fuchsia is, comparatively speaking, a 

 shade-loving plant. It does best in a window 

 with eastern exposure. Exposed to hot sun- 

 shine it will soon dwindle into insignificance, 

 and general ill-health will set in. 



There are as many ways of training the 

 Fuchsia as there are individual tastes. I have 

 seen it trained to a prim trellis, with every 

 branch tied up, making it look as uncomfor- 

 table and awkward as the traditional small boy 

 in Sunday clothes. Others give it a row of 

 sticks about the pot, around which a fence of 

 twine is constructed, outside of which no 

 branches are allowed to grow, making it sim- 

 ply ridiculous. The only satisfactory manner 

 in which this plant can be trained is to study 



the habit of each varietv and allow it to follow 



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out its natural instincts, giving it only such 

 assistance as seems absolutely necessary. Give 

 it a central support, and let its branches droop. 

 That is successful Fuchsia-training in a nut- 

 shell. Treated in this way, a healthy plant 

 will be a mass of foliage from the pot up, with 

 a profusion of graceful branches, each one 

 terminated with buds and flowers. 



Few varieties are strong enough to get along 

 well without a central support. A rod of iron 



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