130 THE TREE PROPAGATOR AND PLANTER. 



as the Fuchsia is, are mitre-like — i.e. contracted at the 

 orifice. The plant should be trained, when young, to a 

 single clean stem up to a foot high, then stopped to 

 induce a head ; for if it is allowed to take its own 

 course it will throw up a lot of suckers and young stuff 

 at the base, which will give quite a confused feature to 

 it, and hide all its beauty, for most of the flowers will 

 be in the interior of the plant. The soil should be peat 

 and maiden loam, two parts of the former to one of the 

 latter. It may be propagated by cuttings of the solid 

 young wood 2 or 3 inches long, trimmed, and inserted in 

 pots filled with fine sandy peat, and set in a mild heat. 



