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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
FUCHSIA COFYMBIFLOftA. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
Sir,— -The following is the treatment which has been given 
to the Fuchsia Corymbiflora, and which I am sure agrees with 
the constitution of the plant, as I have had it fourteen feet high 
this year, and have been able to walk in an upright position 
under the branches. 
In March 3 841, I obtained a plant about six inches high, 
but in good health, and the leaves, though small, clean ; as soon 
as the roots were round the pot I shifted it, and continued to 
do so (in a light rich compost “ composed of one third leaf-mould, 
one third rotten manure, and one third peat and loam, with a 
little silver sand added to the mixture,”) until about the middle 
of September, at which time the plant bloomed, when the leaves 
were nineteen inches long, having increased at each shifting; 
there were several bloom stems, but the main stem had about 
150 blooms on it, and the others were smaller. I should tell 
you that the plant went up quite straight about six feet until it 
bloomed, at which time many lateral shoots were thrown out, 
which bloomed but with poor trusses during the winter. In the 
spring I headed all the shoots back except two, which bloomed 
all the spring; the others broke nicely, and when the shoots were 
about four inches long, I determined to shake the plant out of 
the old earth, to pull away the old roots, and to repot it as 
directed by Mr. Standish in the July Number of last year’s 
Florist’s Journal, (it having stood all the winter in a pot nineteen 
inches in diameter,) notwithstanding the predictions of some as to 
the harm it would do. This summer the plant has been shifted 
since shaking out, and now stands in a pot twenty-two inches and 
a half in diameter, but it has amply repaid the pains bestowed on 
it by a profusion of elegant bloom and beautiful leaves. While 
flowering the plant again made numerous side shoots, but it has 
been recently cut back, (having been in bloom ever since last 
September,) and is now breaking very nicely. As to the future 
treatment 1 am not yet quite resolved what I shall do; I am con¬ 
vinced that this Fuchsia will not stand much heat, as in that case 
