180 ON 1WENTY-SIX SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF FUCHSIAS. 



repeat the watering when required, taking care to let the foliage 

 dry before again placing the hand glass over them. 



In about six weeks from putting off the cuttings, I find they 

 have sti"uck root, and are ready for potting. I pot them into 

 sixties, and place them in a cold frame, keeping it closed for about 

 a fortnight, shading when required. I then gradually inure them 

 to the open air. During winter, I let them remain in the frame, 

 sliding the lights down in the day, and closing them at night. 



These sixteen kinds of Fuchsias I find tolerably hardy, if 

 planted in the open air, having a deep, light, rich soil. The strong 

 branches are tied up in winter, and protected with straw. At the 

 spring season the branches shoot forth vigorously ; they are then 

 thinned out to three or four of the strongest. If the bed, or border, 

 where the plant is, be covered four or six inches deep with mulch, 

 as fern, &c. the plants being cut down to within a few inches of 

 the ground, they shoot freely in the spring. 



The kinds Nos. 10 and 14 require the same mode of treatment 

 in propagation as No. 1 ; they grow freely in the open border 

 during summer, but require being planted in the greenhouse in 

 winter. 



The kinds Nos. 16, 20, 21, 23, and 25, I find propagate best 

 when cuttings are taken off in April or May, inserted in pots, and 

 covered close with bell glasses. I place them to strike in a mo- 

 derate hotbed ; they are, in other respects, treated as the other 

 kinds. 



General Culture. — Those plants I cultivate in pots I train 

 up with a single stem, from one to seven feet high, stopping them 

 at any desired height, having them grown in a good rich soil ; they 

 produce numerous lateral shoots, which never fail to bloom pro- 

 fusely. I keep the plants in a cool greenhouse in winter, and 

 prune them to a single stem in spring, and re-pot when the plants 

 have begun to push shoots, and not before. 



The sixteen hardiest kinds, enumerated above, are in open beds, 

 and are either strawed up, or mulched during winter ; and in the 

 spring, I add the other, tenderer kinds, taking these latter up, and 

 potting them before winter sets in. 



I find all the kinds to flourish in a rich soil, having a portion of 

 sand and peat mixed with it. Those cultivated in pots require 

 well draining. 



