3 3 o Parlor- Plants. 



others to a fan-shaped trellis, and pruning out any which are not needed. 

 It is best to begin our culture in early spring ; and, as soon as the weather 

 is warm enough, set the plant out of doors, being careful to give plenty of 

 water, and never to allow the sun to heat the pot (to prevent this, it is best, 

 as soon as the plant attains any size, to use wooden tubs). Keep the plant 

 growing all summer, never allowing it to flower, and occasionally giving 

 weak liquid-manure. By autumn you will have a sizable plant : remove 

 to a sunny window before the first frost, and grow the plant as before. 

 The first winter, the side-shoots may be allowed to give a few clusters 

 of bloom ; but the leaders must be kept to wood. Continue the same cul- 

 ture year by year, and your plant, when five years old, will be from three to 

 five feet high, half as broad, have a stem as thick as your finger, and give 

 you all the bloom you can desire. 



Such a plant should be grown in a window reaching to the floor, that it 

 may be a mass of foliage and flower. 



The only after-culture necessary is attention to watering, and pruning out 

 the weak shoots. 



The plant will never become self-supporting, but should have a tasty 

 trellis. 



What prettier plant is there than the Fuchsia ? 



All species and varieties are graceful, and worthy of window-culture. 

 Most are summer-bloomers ; but there are at least two which can easily 

 be procured, which flower freely in winter, and make good window-plants. 

 These are F. serratifjlLi and spccijsa ; the former with pink and crimson 

 flowers tipped with green, the latter with pinkish-white and red flowers. 



Their culture is simply to get a good summer's growth, and thus obtain 

 a good winter's bloom. Our plan has been to set the plants in a rich soil 

 in the open ground in spring, regulating the shape of the plant by pinch- 

 ing during the summer, and repotting about the middle of September. 

 The plants will soon show bloom, and continue to give flowers all winter. 

 Of the two, F. scrraiifolia is the handsomer plant, as the foliage is very fine ; 

 but F. speciosa is the freer bloomer. 



Plants from spring-struck cuttings are preferable to old stocks. 



Olkm Ridg^ March, 1869. 



