Fuchsia Introductions 
Descriptions are those given by the hybridizer. 
BO-PEEP (Clement Schnabel)—This is a 
neat upright bush of medium vigor, well 
furnished with small leaves and smoth- 
ered with dainty little flowers. The semi- 
double, pale orchid corolla is somewhat 
flaring, while the tube and well recurved 
sepals are white and touched with a faint 
blush. A dainty addition to the popular 
pastel group. 
DULCINEA (Ralph Edwards)—This is a 
red and white double of exquisite form. 
The red tube is quite long and the sepals 
are the longest we have ever seen on a 
red and white fuchsia. The corolla is dou- 
ble and of a clean, clear white coloring 
and although it is of good size it is 
dwarfed by the beautiful long sepals. 
Reminiscent of Suzanne Pasquier, which 
is one of its parents, Dulcinea tops it with 
its even more elegant sepals. A graceful 
and distinguished plant of medium vigor. 
ECSTACY (Tiret)—An exquisitely colored 
pale double variety which resembles Flir- 
tation in its delicate coloring and form 
but the plant is of more willowy growth 
and the flowers are of even finer color- 
ing. The inner petals are of hyacinth blue 
and the outer ones of the same color are 
splashed at the base with phlox pink. The 
horizontally reflexed broad granular se- 
pals are neyron rose tipped green. The 
large flower has much more substance 
than Flirtation and the pale coloring is of 
a cleaner brighter quality. Tops in the 
marbled pastels. Should be tried as a 
semi-trailing variety. 
GULLIVER (Reiter)—A large white-tubed 
single with dark Tyrian Rose petals. 
This plant is named for the breeder who 
obtained the first white tube and sepalled 
fuchsia, Venus-Victrix, in 1840. The tube 
and sepals are waxy white and the dark 
Tyrian Rose petals are full and overlap 
well. If anything, the plant is too free- 
blooming and it should be started early in 
the season. Best treated as a small bush. 
IRISH ROSE (Reiter)—An entirely new 
coloring in fuchsia. A logical sequence to 
the development of the white fuchsia, 
this variety represents the first new 
break from the exploitation of the all 
whites. The medium sized flowers are 
fully double with pale chartreuse tube 
and sepals and with petalage of the ten- 
derest rose. The perfectly proportioned 
pale rose and light chartreuse double 
flowers and the light green foliage pre- 
sent the most delicate coloring in all of 
fuchsia. There is no other fuchsia like it 
nor is there anything approaching its 
delicacy of color. Like the al] whites, it 
must be grown under cool conditions. 
JACK SHAHAN (Tiret)—A trailing vari- 
ety named for a popular member of the 
American Fuchsia Society. This is a large 
single with long tube and sepals. The 
tube and pagoda shaped sepals are of the 
palest Rose Bengal and the petals of the 
same color are margined with a darker 
shade. A strong grower with a beautiful 
flower which should be easy to grow. 
MANTILLA (Reiter) — A sensational new 
trailer which should grow to perfection in 
Southern California. For years we have 
tried to develop an F. triphylla trailer and 
in 1946 we presented a fairly good va- 
riety, the 25% F. triphyla hybrid, Trum- 
peter. This year we have finally created 
a 50% F. triphylla hybrid which is a per- 
fect trailer. With soft willowy branching 
growth and beautifully shingled with 
bronzy foliage, Mantilla covers itself with 
long flowers of pure deep carmine. The 
flowers have the longest tubes we have 
ever seen, some having measured better 
than three and a half inches in length. 
The petals are spreading and the sepals 
pagoda like. The entire flower, tube se- 
pals and petals are of the one color, deep 
carmine. During the trying 1947 summer 
Mantilla alone seemed to revel in the 
heat. A breeding triumph. 
PINK SHOWER (Reiter)—A trailer with 
plenty of small branches and with small 
semi-double flowers of palest rose. The 
well-formed flowers appear with aban- 
don on the very leafy branching plant. 
Recommended for the cool garden where 
a well furnished hanging pot is desired 
in the pastel shades. 
