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should be primed every autumn to within two or three eyes of the main stem ; for 
it is by pruning alone that they can be cultivated to their greatest perfection. 
Even J^. fulgens itself might be so treated by way of experiment ; but its more 
weakly shoots must then be duly cut away every spring ; or, what is better, the 
superfluous and least healthy buds may be cut off as they are about to develop 
themselves. 
It will be seen that we have not, in this paper, gone minutely into the details 
of Fuchsia culture. Our intention has been to avoid these, in the belief that they 
are such as are common to most other plants, and are therefore too familiar to need 
particularizing. We have only brought under review those points which appear to 
be of primary moment, and by attention to which we believe that our collections 
may be immensely enriched, while the tribe will be cultivated with a universality 
and a success to which no other class of shrubby exotics can offer the least 
pretensions to a parallel. 
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STANDARDS. 
The common Honeysuckle, from its elegant climbing habit, the wild graceful- 
ness with which it flings abroad its uppermost shoots, the prodigality of its cheerful 
blossoms, and their luxurious fragrance, is a general favourite wherever it is knowm. 
It belongs to that interesting class of plants, scattered rather sparingly throughout 
the vegetable kingdom, which secure to themselves universal esteem, and are 
therefore cultivated very extensively. Either this, then, or some of its varieties, 
or other allied species, are cherished in almost every garden that will admit 
them. 
In most parts of England, too, the wild woodbine is found profusely adorning 
the hedges by road-sides and along retired lanes, where, during a large part of the 
summer, it enlivens the wayfarer by its loveliness, and regales him, especially in 
the evening of the day, with its grateful odour. 
Possessed of such sterling charms, it ought to be cultivated in the gardens of 
all, whether peasant or peer, and in every variety of form which its nature will 
allow. As it is exceedingly accommodating with regard to treatment, it seems 
much to be regretted that, in most instances, it is merely grown in those artificial 
circumstances where a wall or a trellis, or something equally formal, is afforded for 
training it over. Supported by a pole, so as to compose a pillar, it is hardly ever 
to be witnessed ; pruned into a dwarf bush, and thus making a fine border shrub, 
it is still seldomer seen ; trailing over rock work or a rocky bank, we have never 
yet observed it ; nor have we ever noticed it planted thickly as a bush, and 
forming entangled beds, nor growing amongst ivy, nor planted extensively to 
twine round the stems of trees in shrubberies, nor covering bushes of Hawthorn or 
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