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being enlarged and strengthened by having grosser growing grafts 
placed upon them; but this is an alteration of bulk only, not of 
properties or essential qualities. 
M. 
FUCHSIA COHYMBIFLOHA, AND FULGENS. 
F. corymbiflora should not be cut down in the autumn, unless 
the shoots have died back. It should be left alone until the 
wood is completely ripened, and the leaves begin to drop off. 
Then it should be placed for the winter in a cool and dry 
situation, equally protected from frost and damp. Before it 
begins to vegetate in the spring, it should be examined, and all 
the shoots which are dead in the points cut back to the living 
wood. At the same time it should be shaken out of the old soil, 
the roots trimmed a little, the plant repotted in a rich earth- 
compost, and gently watered; and by this means it will have at 
least thrice as many flowers as if cut down in the autumn. 
F . fulgens can be propagated by dividing the roots ; but that 
is an idle labour, and it is not the best way of obtaining fine 
flowers. Cuttings are very easily struck, and make better plants, 
with finer, larger, and more highly-coloured flowers than old 
plants or dividings of the roots. The last would have some 
chance of not flowering at all; or if they did flower, the blooms 
would be small and insignificant. The best plan is to keep the 
old plant in a healthy state during winter, and to strike the 
cuttings early in the spring in a little brisk heat, in the same 
manner as Dahlias, and then there is a certainty of having an 
abundance of fine plants flowering in the utmost perfection. 
Besides this there are many plants, more especially from Central 
America, which grow most vigorously and flower most beauti¬ 
fully from cuttings struck and forced by artificial heat in the 
spring. For this purpose, a small stove is a valuable addition to 
a greenhouse. 
