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STANDISH’S Fuchsia. 
Garden Variety. 
_ My principal reason for publishing a figure of this very 
remarkable plant is because it is a mule between Fuchsia 
fulgens and F. globosa, two plants as dissimilar as possible 
in the same genus. The former indeed, figured in this work 
for the year 1838, tab. 1, differs in so many respects from 
the common species of the genus, especially in having an 
herbaceous stem and tuberous roots, that it has been supposed 
impossible that it should be a Fuchsia at all. It now however 
appears, from the fact of its crossing freely with the common 
Fuchsias, that it really does belong to the genus. 
The first plants thus obtained, were, I believe, exhibited 
by Mrs. Lawrence at one of the great Garden Meetings of 
the Horticultural Society in the summer of 1839; but I had 
then no leisure to do more than admire them. Subsequently 
they have been procured by other persons, and appear to be 
produced without any difficulty. They are completely inter- 
mediate between the two parents; in this case having the 
leaves, flowers, and habit of their mother F. globosa, with 
the hairiness and tenderness of foliage of their father, 
some of -his colouring and much of his herbaceous character. 
It is however by no means necessary to take 7. globosa for 
the female parent, as F. fulgens is found to intermix readily 
with many other species. 
That which is now figured is the handsomest I have seen. 
It was raised by Mr. John Standish, Nurseryman, Bagshot, 
who sent me specimens last July, together with flowers of 
several others of inferior appearance. He tells me that it is 
an exceedingly free bloomer, with a stiff erect habit; and I 
can state, from my personal knowledge, that the plant is very 
handsome. 
