446 Treatment of the Fuchsia, 



into a liberal size for a young plant, and keep them growing 

 in peat till about the middle of March, when remove into the 

 greenhouse, rather cool than Avarm, (say 45^.) Here I leave 

 them till the 1st of May, when they are as strong and luxu- 

 riant as can be desired. Then commence roast beef a7id plum 

 puddijig treatment; shift them into a two size larger pot; 

 keep near glass ; water freely, and syringe the foliage two or 

 three times a day ; use same compost as before ; rather more 

 manure, which, observe, is to be so decomposed as to be in- 

 corporated like soil itself; drive them on with warmth and 

 moisture until the middle of June, when shift into large pots, and 

 place all about your empty conservatory, shading them 

 from the sun from 10 till 4 o'clock; go often in, lo admire their 

 luxuriant growth, and dropping, gem-like flowers, and as often 

 give them a syringe-full of clear rainwater ; have your house 

 loell closed from draughts of air, for it occasions the advance 

 of the thrip and black fly ; water as freely as you desire, and 

 you will be rewarded, from the end of June to the end of 

 September, with an infinitude of bloom. The old Yoiiellii 

 and Surpasse Racemosa can be made to hang down over a 

 vase or basket for three or four feet, nearly traihng the ground 

 with bloom. 



I have not found the fuchsia answer well, exposed to the 

 outward air ; the sun parches the foliage, and keeps them 

 bare although in flower. I saw some of the more robust 

 growing sorts answering well in a friend's garden near Al- 

 bany (lately,) which were turned out on a north border, and 

 had been blooming three months. They, however, are much 

 more pleasing when in an elevated position. I kept an im- 

 mense Coralinna in bloom four months in a Grecian vase on 

 a covered piazza, and was a greatly admired ornament as 

 persons approached the house. 



Astoria, N. Y., September, 1848. 



We are happy to welcome our correspondent often to our 

 pages, for no one is more able to impart information on the 

 treatment of many of our most admired and popular plants. 

 We trust we may have similar papers on the pelargonium, 

 rose, and other plants, which have been cultivated with so 

 much success in the fine collection of our correspondent.— £c?. 



