OS THE CULTURE OF THE FUCHSIA. 7 



exliibited three limes at the Horticultural Shew at Chichester, in the 

 same pot in which it flowered in April. It has been recommended 

 to raise young plants from cuttings taken from the strong shoots when 

 the wood is quite hard, and not from young shoots. I have tried both 

 methods repeatedly, and I can obtain much finer plants in one 

 year from the young shoots, than from the hard wooded cuttings at two 



years old. 



Saint Patrick. 



ARTICLE III.— 0)1 the Culture of various Species of 



Fuchsias as Border Plants. By S. J. 



A description of the yarious species of this genus of plants in this 

 Article may be unnecessary, as nearly the whole of the tribe is generally 

 well known, 1 shall therefore only add, that the family is a most lovely 

 one. The neatness of the growth of each of the species, the graceful- 

 ness of the pendant blossoms, and the contrasted fine splendid colours, 

 all unite to render these plants highly meriting tlie most attentive cul- 

 ture, whether kept in pots, or otherwise treated. 1 have latterly culti- 

 vated a number of sorts in the open borders ; the following mode of 

 treatment is that practised me. 



In September I take off a quantity of young shoots, cutting them off 

 close to the old wood. I strike them in small pots filled with white sand. 

 After watering, and allowing the soil to drain a little, I place them in 

 a hotbed frame. When they have taken root, I pot them singly into 

 48 sized pots, and put them into a greenhouse. When they have begun 

 to strike root again into the new soil, I pinch off the leading shoot of 

 each plant, in order to make them throw out lateral shoots, and become 

 bushy plants. Towards the end of April I select the situations where 

 I propose to plant out the Fu'chsias, having beds of some sorts, and 

 others planted singly in the flower borders ; in both cases, I take care 

 to have the bottom well drained with broken pots or something of that 

 nature ; the soil is then strongly enriched with well-rotted manure. 

 When I plant a bed of Fu'chsias, I generally have oblong or irregular 

 shaped beds planted with one species; but when I have a square or 

 round bed, I put the tallest sorts at the centre, and the smaller ones 

 towards the edge of the bed, so that its appearance is that of a cone or 

 pyramid, and the effect is thus rendered more beautiful by the regu- 

 larity and uniformity of a mass of Inllliant pendant flowers. When I 

 plant out singly in the border, 1 of course plaut the taller sorts furthest 

 from the edge. 



