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will grow very vigorously, but you should thin out 
the shoots to 3 or 4 of the strongest, and keep them 
tied up, as they grow, to prevent their getting broken, 
and they will soon show their flower buds, and flower 
finely. The natural habit of the Fuchsia, renders it a 
fine plant to train a single stem, as this allows them 
to form a bushy pyramidal head, and as their corol 
flowers are produced at the points of the branches, 
which are bent by the weight of the flowers into a 
graceful and elegant arch, it gives them when in flow¬ 
er a beautiful and picturesque effect far surpassing the 
ordinary way of tying them up in a bush. Now in 
training them, take care to select a good strong young 
shoot, and cut off* the lower branches close to the 
stem of the plant, leaving about one-third of the whole 
length of the stem covered with branches and leaves, 
and as the plant increases in height, so in exact pro¬ 
portion, remove the lower branches till they have ob¬ 
tained the desired altitude, winch will be according 
to the kinds; the F. virgata, and other strong kinds, 
may be grown to the height of 3 to 5 feet, the F. mic- 
rophylla, andF. globosa, when trained from one to two 
feet high, make elegant plants for a window; F. venus- 
vitrix, and rosa-alba resemble the F. globosa, or mic- 
rophylla, in habit, but as they are smaller plants, 
should be placed in a hot-bed in spring, and they will 
grow more vigorously. The F. fulgens and F. corym- 
biflora, are strong growing kinds, and require a large 
pot, but when well grown, make very fine plants to 
stand on a veranda in summer, as they flower a long 
time. The F. fulgens should be pruned no further 
than as the young shoots die down, as the flower buds 
