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FUCHSIA CORYMBIFLORA. 
Bagshot, Surrey, (and, as we may just mention in this place, the originator of the 
finest hybrid Fuchsia we have yet met with, which Dr. Lindley appropriately calls 
F. Standishii ,) from some relatives who obtained it near Cusco in Peru. The 
habit and foliage are similar to those of F. fulgens , save that the leaves are thicker, 
and of a rich bluish green. It bears an immense terminal drooping raceme of 
flowers, which, says Mr. Standish, “ from the beginning of the general flower-stalk 
to where the first flowers expand, is fifteen inches long, increasing, as the flowers 
open, to about two feet. The side-racemes hang down so as to hide the stem of 
the main one when the first flowers fall. It produces three, and sometimes four, 
side-racemes, which have other smaller ones, that continue in flower for a great 
length of time.” 
It will be perceived from our drawing that the calyx of the flower is a deep 
crimson, the petals being very large ai 
of a bright crimson scarlet hue. T 
petals are not folded together, as in t 
common Fuchsias , but spread out li 
those of F. fulgens. 
Mr. S. informs us that it is far more 
hardy than F. fulgens ; growing all the 
winter in a greenhouse, and thriving in 
perfection during the summer months 
if turned out in the open air in an ex- 
posed situation. He suggests that the 
best way to bloom it is to give it this 
exposure ; and as the species is a 
strong-growing one, it demands a rich 
soil and plenty of water. If retained in a pot, it 
should be gradually shifted into one of large dimen- 
sions, as the roots will not bear to be too confined. 
When once flowered, it is said to be a most 
abundant-blooming species, quite hard- wooded, with 
the probability of reaching, in the open ground, a 
height of ten or twelve feet. It is 
cuttings, formed of the points of the 
showing buds, and immediately 
pots, in a rich soil, will soon constitute young 
flowering specimens of the dwarfest description. 
