SEEDLING FUCHSIA. 
(Smith’s Queen Victoria.) 
A GARDEN HYBRID. 
What we lately said about the desirableness of using caution in giving names 
to Fuchsias, or other hybrid plants that are not sufficiently showy and peculiar, 
need not now be repeated ; and we refer to it only for the purpose of stating that 
the plant here depicted is most emphatically worthy of being thus distinguished. 
It was raised from seed by Mr. Smith, nurseryman, of Dalston, Middlesex, 
and elicited considerable attention when it was exhibited at the gardens of the 
Royal Botanic Society, in Regent’s Park, last July. Indeed, it may be deemed 
the best and most conspicuous hybrid that appeared last season in any of the 
metropolitan collections. 
In a general way, it is after the character of F. Chandlerii ; but it is a very 
much superior plant. The habit is stronger and freer, and the foliage larger, 
while the flowers are far more attractive, and of greater size. Their dimensions, 
n fact, are nearly twice as great as those of F. Chandlerii , and the colours are 
"icher and more decided. The sepals are of a pale whitish blush, tinged with 
;reen at the tips, long, pointed, and seldom at all reflexed, though expanding well. 
The corolla is particularly large, and of a deep purplish crimson hue. The plant 
oears its flowers in great abundance from the axils of its leaves. 
Mr. Smith having now, we believe, obtained a small stock of it, will most likely 
)e able to supply it towards the end of this season. 
Its capabilities as an ornamental plant have been by no means yet developed ; 
md it will doubtless form an admirable plant for purposes of show, when grown 
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