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THE FUCHSIA. 
FUCHSIA FULGENS AND COKYMBIFLORA. 
The varieties of this kind — and they are 
many — are curious in habit as well as in 
flower. The bloom comes in bunches almost 
like tassels at the ends of the branches ; the 
choice therefore may be made as to forming 
a bush or a standard tree, for they do for 
either. 
To form the Standard, — The strongest 
shoot that comes from the root in spring must 
be allowed to grow, and all others must be 
cut off as they appear, so that the plant must 
be confined to one stem. The plant should 
always be repotted as soon as it begins to 
grow, gi _ ing a good inch of new soil all round 
the old ball ; even if the plant be young and 
in a two-and-a-half-inch pot, it ought to be 
placed in a four-and-a-half-inch sized one. 
As it advances in height the lower side shoots 
should be taken off, but three or four pair 
should be always kept on ; and as the upper 
ones advance the lower ones can be taken 
away, so long as it grows the height the stem 
is required to be. When the stem has grown 
as high as it is required, and you wish to form 
the head, pinch out the top, and it will acce- 
lerate the growth of the side branches required 
for it ; and the end must be pinched out of 
the side shoots, that they may throw out 
laterals, and such of these as are wanted may 
be allowed to grow, while those which cross 
each other, or cause any confusion, may be 
removed altogether. The stem must be kept 
clear by rubbing off all the little shoots that 
appear as soon as they come ; and as a general 
rule from the beginning, change the pots to 
larger ones as soon as the roots begin to mat 
round the side, which will be guessed at 
pretty well : before a change is made, the ball 
of earth of each plant must be examined, and 
if the roots have not matted a little, it may be 
continued some time longer. The formation 
of the head must be well attended to, and 
when there appears to be branches enough, 
they must be no longer stopped, but allowed 
to continue growing up to the bloom, which, 
coming as it does at all the ends of the some- 
what pendent branches and shoots, hangs down 
in rich clusters, and has a very pretty ap- 
pearance. 
To form the Shrub. — The plant should 
be. as in the former case, confined to one 
shoot, and all the others should be removed. 
Observe the same plan in potting, but remove 
none of the lateral branches as the plant ad- 
vances, because in this case you want the plant 
to be feathered down to the pot, or nearly so. 
If any one of the side branches appears more 
vigorous than the rest, stop it ; but as the 
plant naturally prows bushy, the chief object 
is to regulate the branches, and to cut them 
away when they come too thick. When the 
plant is nearly as tall as you want it, pinch 
the ends out of every branch, and if necessary 
shorten them two or three joints ; you then 
depend on all the laterals for growth and 
bloom, and you will have a bushy handsome 
shrub, with bunches of flowers, much more 
numerous than they would be without the 
stopping, but not so large as if you allowed 
the original branches to flower. 
THE GLOBOSA AND SHRUBBY KINDS. 
These will in general grow handsome, but 
there are more woody than the varieties we 
have been treating of. They will grow from 
year to year, and retain the old wood, so that 
a standard once formed may be preserved and 
grown like arose; but the plants, when young, 
must be grown into the form required, and as 
they bloom all along the branches, they must 
never be allowed to grow too thick. Many of 
the varieties disposed like the globosa to be 
pendulous and very bushy, require nothing 
but growing, and the occasional removal of 
branches growing in the way of each other ; 
and this must be well attended to, for half the 
beauty of the plant is destroyed when they 
are allowed to grow at random. There is a 
peculiarity in some of the varieties — and 
globosa is among these — which must be taken 
into account while growing ; this peculiarity 
is the habit of blooming even the instant they 
are struck. Mr. Dennis, of the King's-road, 
used to exhibit plants by scores in full bloom, 
hanging over all round the pot, and not two 
inches high, and very beautiful looking objects 
they were ; when this is required we have 
only to select the cuttings from the ends of 
branches, at the fall of the year, strike them 
in heat, and pot them as soon as they have 
struck in small sixties, or pots of two and a half 
inches across, in soil composed of loam from 
rotted turf, two parts, and cow dung decom- 
posed to mould, one part : let this be sifted 
with a sieve that would let horse beans through, 
merely to take away larger stones, which are in 
the way in small pots, though not in large ones. 
In these pots let them grow all the winter, instead 
of resting, but pinch out the tops as soon as they 
start, and in spring they will be handsome 
little plants in full flower, m But plants that 
are to be grown to any size as specimens must 
be put into a moderate degree of warmth, 
and even a little bottom heat is good for them: 
they must not be topped, but as soon as the 
roots reach the side they must be shifted to 
larger pots, and the instant the buds appear 
they must be picked off; but, generally 
speaking, all the plants of this short pendulous 
bushy habit may be allowed to grow and 
bloom and grow again, merely shifting them 
as they require it to larger sized pots, and 
