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FUCHSIA RADICANS, 
Mr, Miers observes, in a letter to Dr. Lindley, published in the Botanical 
Register, that although its native place is just within the tropics, it grows at an 
elevation of 3000 feet, where it experiences, during the nights of the Brazilian 
winter in those regions, a temperature as low as thirty-five or forty degrees,, 
Falirenheit/' Hence it would seem to be capable of flourishing in an ordinary green- 
house. It certainly, however, is not injured by being placed in a stove throughout 
the summer, provided it be not subjected to excessive stimulation. 
In garden cultivation, it appears to require more of the treatment of a shrub 
than a climbing plant. The stems of a large specimen at Messrs. Young's, Epsom, 
are kept erect, or nearly so, by stakes, and they are now about four or five feet in 
height. It would be singular, were it not confirmed by yearly experience on other 
objects, that while the strong plant just referred to has not yet borne a single 
blossom, young specimens, not more than six inches high, raised from cuttings of 
the older one, have bloomed profusely. Few gardeners are unacquainted with the 
advantages of this practice in the instance of newly-introduced plants which will 
not develop their flowers ; but the example here adduced may serve to recal 
attention to it. 
A light loamy soil, and a liberal supply of water in the summer, are the only 
requisites for the successful culture of this plant. We should prefer having none 
but small specimens, which have a neater appearance, and occupy less room. It 
can be multiplied to any extent by cuttings. 
Leonard Fuchs, a celebrated German botanist, is commemorated in the name 
of this genus ; and the species derives its title from the tendency of the stems to 
emit roots at their joints or nodes. In nurseries it is sometimes, but improperly, 
called J^. affinis. 
