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ROSE PRINCESS BEATRICE.-FUCHSIA RICCARTONI. 
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ROSE PRINCESS BEATRICE. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
OME Roses that are beautiful in the garden, on account of their freedom 
of growth and flowering, do not possess the size, fullness, and symmetry of 
form required in show flowers. Others are good show flowers, but bloom 
sparingly, or require a manipulation which ill fits them for garden decora¬ 
tion. Others, again, although the number is limited, are equally good, either as 
garden roses or show roses. 
It is to this latter class that the subject of our plate, the Rose Princess 
Beatrice, belongs. It is a full-sized, regularly-shaped, globular flower, perfectly 
double ; the colour a deep but delicate shade of pink, with a clear blush margin ; 
the petals are beautifully rounded, and of great substance, so that the durability 
of the flower is unexceptionably great. Flowers produced under glass in March 
last remained in condition a fortnight, and in the open ground in June and July 
they lasted twice the time of any other rose. 
The flower in character and outline resembles Alfred Colomb, although 
differing widely in colour from that admirable variety. The growth is more 
like that of Victor Verdier, the vigorous shoots producing large, bright, hand¬ 
some foliage. One great quality which must not be overlooked, is that it flowers 
as freely in September and October as in the summer months. It has received 
a First-Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society, and is announced 
as one of the series of novelties to be introduced by Mr. William Paul, of Waltham 
Cross, and to be first publicly sold next May.—M. 
FUCHSIA RICCARTONI. 
JN a long fruit-tree border here there are about twenty plants of the Fuchsia 
Riccartoni in full flower at the present time. They were planted about 
eleven years ago, and some of the plants are from 6 ft. to 8 ft. in diameter 
of branches, and tall in proportion, every lower branch drooping with flowers 
down to the ground. I have never seen any show Fuchsias grown in pots or tubs 
that would bear any comparison with these specimens of Riccartoni grown in the 
open air, and my object in writing this is to recommend the more extensive 
planting of this variety in shrubberies and mixed borders. The plants of it here 
have never been protected in severe winters, it being usually safe at the roots ; 
but if some old tan or litter is placed round the bottom of the plants in autumn, 
they break sooner in the spring, and flower earlier. This Fuchsia is by far the 
grandest flowering shrub in the autumn that I am acquainted with, especially 
when the plants get large, as they are here. Along with the Riccartoni , plants of 
the old Fuchsia coccinea [? magellanica'] were planted, but they have never got 
to the same size as the Riccartoni , although very graceful, from their slender 
shoots and free-flowering habit. 
3rd series.— iv. • L 
