' ON THE CULTURE OF FUCHSIAS, ETC. 61 



as if quite exposed, and will thereby be prevented from receiving 

 accidental farina from inferior kinds through the medium of insects ; 

 and it will be advisable always to take the earliest flowers on that 

 account, since they more numerously abound as the season advances. 

 The next step is to gather the seed as soon as ripe, which may be 

 easily known, and it must be carefully dried by keeping it in the 

 pocket or in a dry sunny place, wrapped in paper, and then carefully 

 laid by till the succeeding spring, when it must be sown (autumn is 

 not a safe time in our northern climate at least) in pots or boxes filled 

 with a loose-textured compost, and covered by the same till the seed 

 just disappears, and be placed in the shade of a south wall, taking 

 care to water as it is needed. As soon as the seedlings appear, en- 

 courage them by more frequent supplies of water throughout the 

 whole summer ; and in the middle of August transplant them into a 

 prepared bed of similar compost, with a little old hot-bed manure, in 

 some shady place as before named, where they will flourish abund- 

 antly and flower profusely in the following spring, when the labours 

 of the careful experimentalist will be amply rewarded by his intro- 

 duction to a host of new acquaintances of excellent character and of 

 beautiful and smiling faces ; when he may again repeat the same 

 process and be again rewarded, and thus secure to himself an annual 

 fund of rational amusement and an endless source of floral gratifi- 

 cation. 



ARTICLE V. 



ON THE CULTURE OF FUCHSIAS, AND OTHER FREE-GROWING 



PLANTS, IN POTS. 



BY T. J.., ISLE OK MAN. 



Early in spring I struck cuttings of Fuchsia corymbiflora and 

 fulgens, Diplacus puniceus, Syphocampylus bicolor, Salvia patens, 

 &c. After they were sufficiently rooted I potted them in 48-sized 

 pots, using fresh loam and leaf-mould in equal quantities, adding a 

 little sand. As soon as the roots were touching the pots all round, I 

 shifted them into others, 18 inches in diameter and 20 inches in 

 deptli, packing 3 inches deep of broken pots into the bottom of each ; 

 then a thin Uyer of fresh turf from a rich pasture, chopped roughly 

 with a spade ; after that a corresponding layer of well-decayed cow- 



