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 

 fulgeiis and F. glohosa, 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 beUeve, exhibited 

 by Mrs. Lawrence at one of the great Garden Meetings of 

 the Horticultural Society in the summer of 1839 ; but 1 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 difiiculty. They are completely inter- 

 mediate between the two parents ; in this case having the 

 leaves, flowers, and habit of their mother F. glohosa^ 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 F. glohosa 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. 



