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stems; 1 supply them with plenty of rain or river water, poured 

 between the rows, and continue it till the bloom is over. During 

 lire time of flowering, it is necessary to protect them with an 

 awning from sun and rain. As soon as the grass turns yellow, I 

 take them np, and, when dry, store them away in paper bags with 

 their" respective tollies. After I have taken up my roots, I keep 

 the bed free from weeds till October, when I take off the inch of 

 soil that covered the roots, and spread over the bed an inch thick 

 of fresh cow-dung. This gets well washed into the ^oil by the 

 time of planting, when I again rake over the bed, and plant as 

 before. I never dig it over, but when the roots are taken up after 

 the 'second year's growth, I take out all the rotten flag, and store 

 it away for my Carnation compost, to be mixed up in September, 

 for which it answers admirably. 1 had sixteen hundred roots 

 •rrown in this way this last season, and not more than thirty missed 

 flowering. Mine were universally allowed, by all those who saw 

 them, to be the best they had seen last year, but certainly very 

 inferior to what they generally are, as I have seldom a root that 

 does not throw up four or five flowers. Innovator. 



May 3rd, 1834. 



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ARTICLE II. — On the Culture of Fuchsia virgata. 

 By Mr. W. Denyer, Gardener to Lady Webster, 

 Battle Abbey, Sussex. 



Having recently become a subscriber to the Floricultural Ca- 

 binet, and to the Gardener's and Foresters Record, I beg to say, 

 that I have been much gratified with the useful information they 

 are calculated to impart, not only to the inexperienced, but to the 

 practical gardener also. In perusing the pages of the Cabinet, I 

 have seen two or three good treatises on that graceful genus the 

 Fuchsia ; but as no one has said any thing in particular on F. 

 virgata, I wish to say a little in its favour, and to recommend it 

 as being far the best of all the genus for the flower garden, and 

 for fronts of shrubbery gardens. F. gracilis is a noble and grace- 

 ful plant when well grown, but it does not commence flowering in 

 the open border so soon as virgata by three weeks or a month, 

 neither does it flower so late by six weeks or more, which is a great 



