It may not be generally known, or if known but little acted on, that some of our finest varieties of Fuchsia form magnificent objects during the dreary months of winter, if rightly prepared, and a genial atmosphere given them.

One of the principal aims, I take it, of a gardener in this country, should be the supply of an abundance of flowers during the winter months. In more temperate climates, where a bunch of flowers in ordinary winters can be plucked out of doors at almost any time - where evergreens, especially the broad-leaved kinds, can always be enjoyed - that desire for a bunch of flowers is not felt as in a climate like this, where out-of-door flowers in winter is a "case," and broad-leaved evergreens a "case" too; for they have to be wrapped in a case of some kind, generally far from being beautiful.'

The green-house is wholly inadequate, during the winter months, to supply the floral gems we need; an ordinary hot-house is the climate, where the night temperature is seldom below 55° - more frequently 60°, "But," the first salute is, "our hot-house is too much crowded; I can not spare the room." We think differently, and will proceed to show. Any plant, the flower of which hangs beneath the foliage, shows to good advantage if considerably elevated above the line of vision. It is so with the Fuchsia; give it a straight single stem of say four or five feet high, allowing it to form a head at the top and no plant shows to greater perfection. The head is not generally dense, but spreading, slightly drooping from the weight of flowers at the point, and if placed at the back of the house, is no injury to any plant beneath from shade, and occupies a portion of "space" usually vacant.

Select those kinds most free of flowering and the most difficult of breaking into wood regular - as speciosa, Eliza Meillez, Snowdrop, and Sir John Fatstaff, which will afford a good variety in color - and strike in the ordinary way in the spring. Keep them in a warm, growing temperature, and the side shoots pinched back till the height wished for is obtained, having gradually shifted them till they are in say 7-inch pots. Pinch out the top, which will induce several eyes to start, rub off all branches and foliage below them, and plunge the plants for the remainder of the summer in the open border. Keep them from making much growth or flowering while in this place by an occasional stopping. Early in the fall take up your plants, and repot them into pots two or three sizes larger. Any time during November place them in the stove, where they will begin flowering immediately, and continue without intermission all the winter and spring.

Here you can cut flowers without compunction, in any quantity, which will frequently obviate the necessity of cutting from other plants flowers that will remain a long time in perfection if left on the plant - a point often of considerable importance to the gardener, in keeping the houses gay.

We have now a plant of speciosa, which was a cutting last year, with a stem hard and woody, and two and a half inches in diameter three feet from the pot It alone has furnished hundreds of blossoms for cutting, beside those which have dropped; and has been the admiration of all who have seen it It has been occasionally watered with weak liquid manure water, which counteracts the tendency of pot-bound plants, and especially the Fuchsia, to produce small flowers. The one mentioned has flowers as fine now as when in a young state.

[We commend Mr. Sanders' practice. The Fuchsia is a valuable acquisition to the winter green-house, when well flowered, as we saw some specimens in Mr. Rathbone's house last February. - Ed].