The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . The Nkw Fuchsias of 185-1.—Birmingham has hitherto been justly celebrated for the intro-duction of new Fuchsias of first-rate quality, but I regret that this season there has been a saddeparture from so ?wholesome a rule, and that their three new ones, Duke of Wellington,Trentham, and Fanny Webb, do not merit a position side by side with the Queen oj Hanover,Telegraph, Vanguard, and other new ones. The public was led to expect a Fuchsia of first cla-sexcellence in the Duke of Wellingfon, but with me as well as with others where I ha
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . The Nkw Fuchsias of 185-1.—Birmingham has hitherto been justly celebrated for the intro-duction of new Fuchsias of first-rate quality, but I regret that this season there has been a saddeparture from so ?wholesome a rule, and that their three new ones, Duke of Wellington,Trentham, and Fanny Webb, do not merit a position side by side with the Queen oj Hanover,Telegraph, Vanguard, and other new ones. The public was led to expect a Fuchsia of first cla-sexcellence in the Duke of Wellingfon, but with me as well as with others where I have seen it,it is coarse and deficient in color — the sepals are dull in color but well reflexed, tube rough andfluted, and corolla not deep enough in color, even in the young state; it is however a freebloomer and of good habit. I cannot class this as by any means a first-rate Fuchsia. Trenthamis a coarse monstrosity, tube and sepals dull scarlet, coarse, and does not reflex. Corolla paleblue purple, with scarlet vein, extending from the base of each
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