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lose their leaves, and only require to be kept from 

 the frost; they would want larger pots at the begin- 

 ning of the year, all the side branches shortened, and if 

 the leaders chance to be injured, they should be short- 

 ened to a strong shoot, and that trained upward by a 

 temporary support ; but it is far better to save the 

 original leaders. The next year's growth would be 

 better than the first. It would, however, be necessary 

 to thin out many of the shoots, because they would 

 otherwise be too thick and confused. They would be 

 one mass of bloom from top to bottom, and models of 

 what fuchsias should be ; but they must be grown without 

 heat the second year as well as the first,' and as a gen- 

 eral rule fuchsias should have no artificial heat; they 

 should be grown in a green-house, though we have 

 often seen them out doors ; but the changes of weather are 

 too severe for them, and though of brighter and firmer 

 color, and more robust growth, they lack much of the 

 grace and delicacy of tinting, which is so attractive in 

 the fuchsia. While growing they should have plenty 



of water, and be shaded a little from the intense heat 



f 

 of our summer's sun. The white corollaed varieties are 



all of weak growth, and not adapted for specimens ; the 



