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shows the magnificence of that species to an advantage that must be seen to be 
i understood. It is equally applicable to the splendid recent introduction, F. serrati- 
folia. F. fulgens can also be rendered a most interesting object, by bringing it under 
the method of training in question. In short, there is not one of the multitude of 
beautiful objects that now crowd our gardens, that may not, with care and persever- 
ance, be induced to erect itself into a beautiful tree. 
We do not wish to be understood as recommending this method of training 
alone, in growing the Fuchsia , but we strongly recommend that where Fuchsias are 
grown, that some be thus trained. 
Before concluding, we will advert to the prevalent neglect of any endeavour to 
render Fuchsias, cultivated in pots, and not trained in the standard form, the inte- 
resting objects they ought to be. In many instances, where every attention has been 
paid to the selection of suitable soil, proper provision as regards pot- room, &c., we 
find the plant, so far as any system of training is concerned, altogether left to shift 
for itself. The advantage observable in the aspect of plants, from attention to 
this particular, is so evident, that a too general neglect of it alone could have 
induced us to thus bring it under notice. The Fuchsia so well repays any care 
bestowed upon it, that when we recollect all that is necessary in reference to the 
point in question, is the checking undue luxuriance in a branch where it exists, by 
stopping it, the removal of one where they are too crowded, &c., is all that is 
required to greatly improve it, at the same time leaving it to display its natural 
gracefulness. 
We have in this article gone rather more into practical detail than is our usual 
custom ; but when treating of so extensively admired a plant as the Fuchsia, we feel 
convinced that, by endeavouring to place it in a more engaging light, our exertions 
are taking their proper aim. 
ON GROWING PLANTS AS EPIPHYTES. 
The result of some experiments instituted at Chatsworth, in the course of last 
summer, have demonstrated that it is not necessary, with regard to any genera or 
species of plant, that a particular method of treatment or stated conditions, always 
unfailingly applied by the same rule of circumstances, although in their effects 
leaving nothing to be expected or scarcely desired, should be undeviatingly adhered 
to, thereby preventing that healthy resort to experiment, and absorbing the inclination 
to inquiry, that is often productive of the most pleasing results. 
There is an immensely wide difference between the anxious desire to improve on 
doing well, which we commend, and the restless inclination to experiment, that in 
its exercise effects nothing but its individual indulgence. While we applaud the one 
we condemn the other. 
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