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of the same habit, ami require similar treatment to the common 

 China rose. The Rosa semperflorens, Boursoult, Noisette, &c, 

 seem to flower better, and grow stronger, than when supported by 

 their own natural roots. The moss rose, Tuscany, and others of 

 similar habits, will not flower more than two or three years at the 

 furthest, for the shoots they are budded upon soon begin to decay, 

 which renders it necessary to insert a succession of young buds 

 annually, and to cut the old ones away. Some of the free-growing 

 kinds will flower the same year they are budded : these should be cut 

 back to two or three eyes in the winter, and also the shoots they are 

 budded upon to one eye above each bud ; those sorts which are of 

 slower growth will require the shoot leaving several eyes above the 

 bud, as it is apt to die down when cut close to the bud. Budding 

 roses on a trellis is more to be recommended, than budding the 

 different sorts on standards. A standard rose makes an object in 

 itself, and I think is more calculated to please without mixture on the 

 same plant, but with regard to the trellis, it is the greatest object to 

 have a regular succession of flowers of different colours in perfection 

 throughout greater part of the year on the same plant. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



ON THE FUCHSIA CORYMBIFLORA. 



BY A TWELVE MONTHS' SUBSCRIBE!*, TOTNES IN DEVONSHIRE. 



This Fuchsia, so justly admired for its large foliage and fine showy 

 flowers, and so easy of propagation and culture, has been highly 

 spoken of, and by far abler men than I can claim to be, yet expe- 

 rience may, and does, tend to give useful information. Having seen 

 in the Floricultural Cabinet where it is recommended to strike 

 cuttings in sand alone, and also striking them under hand-glasses, I 

 have tried both ways, and although both may he good, yet I venture 

 to give you another, a safer and quicker way of striking them, viz. : — 

 As soon as I can get slips (not cuttings), I take them off with a sharp 

 knife, theu let them lie out in the shade for an hour to heal the 

 wound ; I then insert them ten or twelve in a pot, in a mixture of 

 leaf mould, loam, and sand, using about a fourth of sand, then 

 plunge them in a cool frame to the rim in rotten tan, keeping the 

 glass close for a few days, and in three weeks they are plants with 



