THE FUCHSIA 



The Fuchsia is, comparatively speaking, a 

 shade-loving plant. It does best in a window 

 with eastern exposure. Exposed to hot sun- 

 shine it will soon dwindle into insignificance, 

 and general ill-health will set in. 



There are as many ways of training the 

 Fuchsia as there are individual tastes. I have 

 seen it trained to a prim trellis, with every 

 branch tied up, making it look as uncomfor- 

 table and awkward as the traditional small boy 

 in Sunday clothes. Others give it a row of 

 sticks about the pot, around which a fence of 

 twine is constructed, outside of which no 

 branches are allowed to grow, making it sim- 

 ply ridiculous. The only satisfactory manner 

 in which this plant can be trained is to study 

 the habit of each variety and allow it to follow 

 out its natural instincts, giving it only such 

 assistance as seems absolutely necessary. Give 

 it a central support, and let its branches droop. 

 That is successful Fuchsia-training in a nut- 

 shell. Treated in this way, a healthy plant 

 will be a mass of foliage from the pot up, with 

 a profusion of graceful branches, each one 

 terminated with buds and flowers. 



Few varieties are strong enough to get along 

 well without a central support. A rod of iron 



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