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any other, and till the plant arrived at full growth 

 I thought it a Scotch Rose, the seed of which had 

 by accident been mixed with that of the Moss 

 Rose, although I had taken extreme care : to my 

 surprise it has since proved a perfect hybrid, 

 having the sepals and the fruit of the Provence 

 Rose, with the spiny and dwarf habit of the 

 Scotch Rose ; it bears abundance of heps, which 

 are all abortive.* The difference in the fruit of 

 the Moss and Provence Rose, and those of the 

 Scotch is very remarkable, and this it was which 

 drew my particular attention to the plant in 

 question ; it was raised from the same seed, and in 

 the same seed-pan, as the Single Crimson Moss 

 Rose ; as this strange hybrid came from a Moss 

 Rose accidentally fertilised, we may expect that 

 art will do much more for us. 



The following extract from the Botanical Re- 

 gister for January, 1840, will, I think, go to prove 

 that these expectations are not without found- 

 ation : 



" My principal reason for publishing a figure 

 of this very remarkable plant, Fuchsia Standishii, 

 is because it is a mule between Fuchsia fulgens 

 and Fuchsia globosa, two plants as dissimilar as 

 possible in the same genus. The former, indeed, 



* It is more than probable, that if the flowers of this rose were 

 fertilised with those of the single Moss Rose, they would pro- 

 duce seed from which some curious hybrid moss roses might be 

 expected. 



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