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cut the top off entirely. Turn out of the pots and trim some of the straggling 
roots, and put it in a twelve to fourteen inch pot ; prepare soil of rotted turf and 
hotbed manure, or well decomposed cow manure, with a small handful of sand 
When potted, water with warm water, and thoroughly sprinkle once a week 
Klg. 72.— A well gro i Specimen Plaut of tlio Fuchsia. CFroni a Pliofosrapli.) 
Always encourage the main stem to grow st^-aight, and tie it to a stake ; then 
form your plant as you ^.lease. Often j^ou will have to cut back so as to makes 
skeleton from which the branches can start as you choose to have them. 
