STANDISH’S SEEDLING FUCHSIAS, 
(1. Attraction. 2. President. 3. Colossus.) 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGRACEiE. 
GARDEN HYBRIDS. 
The hybridization of any popular tribe, when once the practice is brought 
thoroughly into vogue, is speedily carried to an extent which renders characteristic 
distinctions indefinable ; and perhaps the introduction of the numberless names 
which necessarily arise out of such a circumstance is to be regretted, as occasioning 
difficulty and labour beyond what most cultivators are disposed to submit to. For 
the purposes of sale, however, and also to enable one grower to recommend very 
particular sorts to another cultivator at a distance, it is essential that every 
seedling or variety that is at all deserving of being perpetuated should have a 
distinctive appellation. 
It is this view of the case which leads us to adopt the names of the very 
handsome Fuchsias now depicted. The family to which they belong has rapidly 
grown, in the hands of the hybridist, to a size which is quite inappreciable ; and 
of its multitudes of members, there are not many which will stand the test of time. 
The present seedlings possess, notwithstanding, a superiority in several points 
which will entitle them to general favour ; and, like F. Standishii , they appear 
likely to continue in cultivation after others of a less attractive order have been 
discarded. 
Mr. John Standish, nurseryman, of Bagsliot, who raised the beautiful hybrids 
already referred to, has likewise originated the seedlings figured on the accom- 
panying plate. They are three of six fine sorts obtained in the following manner : — ■ 
In 1841 he raised a number of seedlings from Thomsons formosa elegans , by 
corymb'iflora. They were very pretty, and free growers ; but not particularly 
different from the hybrids of F. fulgens , except that they seeded abundantly, 
which those hybrids rarely do. Having saved some of those seeds without any 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
