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LIX. Upon the Cultivation of Fuchsias. In a Letter to the 

 Secretary. By Mr. James Smith, Gardener to William 

 Pinchback, Esq. of Camberwell, Surrey. Communicated 

 by John Wrench, Esq. F. H. S. 



Read September 19, 1826. 



Sir, 



It has been suggested to me, that an account of my plan of 

 growing Fuchsias, might be acceptable to the Horticultural 

 Society, I therefore have requested Mr. Wrench to transmit 

 a description of it to you. 



The method I have adopted in the two last seasons, in 

 growing the Fuchsia gracilis, F. tenella, F. arborescens, and 

 F. excorticata, is as follows : — about the end of February, or 

 the beginning of March, I strike, in the usual manner, from 

 the youngest shoots, as many plants of the different species 

 as I think I may want. After they are fit to pot off, I put 

 them into small sixties, thence into large sixties. While 

 they are in these last sized pots, I keep them in a gentle 

 moist heat, to make them acquire some strength ; then I 

 remove them into the green-house, shifting them every three 

 or four weeks, as the pots fill with roots, till the plants are 

 established in twenty-four sized pots, in which they finally 

 remain to flower. 



Nothing can surpass the beauty and regularity of the 

 plants grown in this way. I have now some of the Fuchsia 

 gracilis, from three and a half to five feet high ; also the 

 Fuchsia tenella, two feet and a half high, with single straight 

 stems, the branches hanging over, and nearly covering the 



