. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. ss-impreg-nated between F. conica and F. microphylla. In the secondvolume of Paxtons Magazine, in reference to thisvariety, the editor states that D. Don says it was raised byMr. Bunney (presumably of the Kingsland Nursery) fromseeds of F. conica. Soon after Mr. Silverlock, of Chichester,raised globosa elegans—a variety with longer pedicels—fromglobosa, but it was not known by what variety it was 1838 Lowes Atkinsoniana, an improved globosa, was sentout. The introduction of F. fulgens, cordifolia, and oth
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. ss-impreg-nated between F. conica and F. microphylla. In the secondvolume of Paxtons Magazine, in reference to thisvariety, the editor states that D. Don says it was raised byMr. Bunney (presumably of the Kingsland Nursery) fromseeds of F. conica. Soon after Mr. Silverlock, of Chichester,raised globosa elegans—a variety with longer pedicels—fromglobosa, but it was not known by what variety it was 1838 Lowes Atkinsoniana, an improved globosa, was sentout. The introduction of F. fulgens, cordifolia, and otherspecies, opened a wider field for hybridisers, and new strainsof varieties and improved varieties followed each other so fastthat Loudon, Paxton, and other writers of the time were con-stantly appealing to raisers not to flood the market withvarieties scarcely appreciably different from those alreadyknown. In Loudons Magazine for 1839 several hybridsbetween fulgens and grandiflora (one of the macrostema set,raised by T. Colley, Hope Nurseries, Leeming, Yorkshire), arc. An erect-flowering Fachsia. described. Among them majestica, flower, including foot-stalk, 4w in. long, aud 2 in. across; fulgida superba, in. long, very compact, foliage large dark green ; multifloraerecta, a neat grower and profuse bloomer, with good racemiflora, raised by Mr. Dick, gardener to A. Annesley,Esq., Bletchington Park, between fulgens (female) aud giandi-flora (male) was awarded the prize for the best seedling atthe Oxford Show in IKIO, The same year Ponteys tricolorappeared; this was remarkable for its fine colouring, thesepals being tipped with green and the petals of a rich handsome hybrid, raised by Standish, between fulgens andglobosa, was figured in the Botanical Register, 1840, t. 2,aud the same nurseryman flowered F. corymbiflora the sameseason. In Loudons Magazine the latter is said to be ashardy as any Fuchsia. F. arborescens, singular in its terminal
Size: 1317px × 1897px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookpublisherlondonsn, booksubjectgardening, booksubjecthorticul
