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F.reflexa Hort.Berol.,
with her attractive little flowers, looks much like
F.mycrophilla
and some of
them hold her as a cultivar,though as country of origine is named
Mexico. Also you can say that
'Cottinghami',
that was known at te same time with F.reflexa
, is of this one not to distinguish, except of the more
dark tint of her flowers and leaves. |
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F
macrostemma R. P. [Flore
Peruviana 3, plate 324 f. 6 en Bot. Cab. plate 1062,
see Pict.16]
is a good species, of which many other are descended.
She grows in the mountains of Chili, and looks till in the corolla
of its sepals and stamens like
F.coccinea, F.serratifolia en
F.denticulata ,
a mutation of herself. General
people is of opinion, that many so-called
species in gardens are nothing else as forms
of F.macrostema,
and for all it is sayd of
F.globosa, F.conica, F.longiflora, F.recurvata
[Curtis's Bot. Mag.
plate 3521],
F.gracilis, F.mutabilis
and
F.tenella Lindl [Bot. Reg.,
plate 1052].
F.macrostema
itself was in 1840 outside
England still rare. In 1847
Verschaffelt
out of Gent got of it a
mutation with white sepals. |
Pict.16 F.macrostemma - 'Bot. Cab.',
plate 1062 |
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Pict.17 F.thymifolia - 'Sweet's Br. fl.
gard.'. pl. 35 |
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About 1840 became known on the
fast country of Europe
F.decussata R.P. [Flora Peruviana plate
323 f.6] out of
Peru, with dark rose-red sepals and scarlet corollas;
F.thymifolia
H.B. [Sweet's Br. fl.gard. Ser. 2, plate
35 [see Pict.16]
from Mexico, with in the
beginning pale rose-red but lateron dark-purple flowers and atleast
F.venusta H.B. [Flore des Serres, plate
538, see Pict.18]
from New-Grenada,
with red-purple sepals and
scarlet- or orange-red corollas. |
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F.discolor
Lindl. [Curtis's
Bot. Mag., plate 3499, and Bot. Reg.,
plate 1805] was for England where
she is planted out in the border, offers resistance to changing states
of the weather, and was so a good accession. However she is for Germany not fitted,
while people there saw it freezing down till on into the ground.
Imported was
F.discolor
of the
Falkland
Isles, where she is tied to places, which are potected but that in winter yet are
laying buried three till four foot under snow and ice. She looks much on
F.gracilis
multiflora, F.tenella
and
F.conica
Lindl
[Bot. Reg., plate 1062]. |
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Pict.18 F.venusta - 'Sweet's Br. fl. gard.', plate 538 |
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Pict.19a F.serratifolia - 'Curtis's
Bot. Mag.',plate 4174 |
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Pict.19b F.serratifolia - 'Paxton's Mag. of Bot.', pl. 169 |
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Pict.20 F.splendens - 'Curtis's
Bot. Mag.', plate 4082 |
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In 1845
catch on very much a till than still unknown species
out of Muma (Peru), namely
F.serratifolia
R.P., on
English exhibitions and that not without reason, while she glitters with
flowers of 1½"
length, of which the half orange-
and half rose-red corolla is fitted in bright green sepals. Named
fuchsia obtained awards in Chiswick and on the exhibitions of the Royal
Horticultural Society in Regent's Park.
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Pict..21a F.macrantha - 'Paxton's
Mag. Bot.', pl. 4082 |
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Pict.21b F.macrantha - 'Flore
des Serres', pl. 151-153 |
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The
honour of her discovery belongs to Ruiz & Pavon,
the honour of her import belongs to Lobb,
who found her also in Muma,
her sent to Veith & Sons
and that in his nursery
in the summer of 1844 was flowering. From
that time
F.serratifolia
was
pictured as well in Bot. Reg. plate 41, as
well in het Curtis's Bot. Mag.
plate 4174 [see
Pict.19a ], Paxton's Mag. of Bot. XII,
plate 169 [see
Pict.19b
] and in Flore des Serres plate 447.
. In
1845 she was for sale in Erfurt,
and in 1852 she became
crossed with
'Napoleon',
of which come into existence of a number of
varieties with white sepals was the result.
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About 1845
the collection of the Royal Horticultural
Society in London
was enriched with
F.splendens
[Bot. Reg. 1842, plate 67, Curtis's Bot. Mag,,
plate 4082 (see
Pict.20)
and
Flore des Serres, plate 458]
,which was taken away by
Hartweg from the mountain Fotanpeque,
which is situated 10000 foot above the seelevel and this one can
winter in England.
Curtis Bot. Mag. plate 4082 (see
Pict.20) en Flore des Serres, plate458].
Named variety has scarlet tubus and green sepals and corolla.
She became after Hartweg
imported by Linden
from Chamula, and bySkinner
from Guatamala. In 1858
came in commerce from
F.splendens
the cultivar
'President
Gosselin'.
From 1846
dates the import in Europe of
F.macrantha
Hook [Curtis's Bot. Mag., plate 4233, Paxton's
Mag. of Bot. plate 4082 (see
Pict.21a), Flore des Serres,
plate 151-153, see
Pict.20b],
is so named while she of all then known
varieties had the largest flowers. .F.macrantha
was first discovered by
Matthews on
the high mountains of Antimarca
(Peru),
however sent to
England not else as in dried specimen for the herbarium of Sir Hooker
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Lobb,
the welknown voyager of Veith & Sons,,
was her importer. He found
her in the forests of Chasula (Columbia),
at a hight of 5000 foot above the seelevel.
In England as well in Germany F.macrantha
was continue honoured .
She
reaches in that countries a hight of 2 - 3 foot, flowers
rich, but produce pale red flowers.
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From
F.mexicana,
named by
Porcher
F.montana
, which was found in 1847,
there are no details known.
Better known are on the other hand
F.acinifolia
Scheidw. (also
named
F.brevifolia),
and
F.nigricans
Linden. This one first flowered in the
temperate greenhouses of Galeotti.
She is external dwarfish and bears flowers
with a half rose-red and half white corolla.
F.nigricans
was discovered by Linden in hollow
wet and shadowy districts in the provence Merida (Venezuela),
at the entree of Paranillo de la Mucuti
(between Mendoza and Timotes)
2270-2600 metres above the ocean, and sent
over by the voyagers
Funck and
Schlimm in 1847, in the form of
seed, |
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Pict.22
F.nigricans - 'Flore des Serres', plate
481 |
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Pict.23 F.spectabilis - 'Flore
des Serres', plate 359-360 |
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Pict.24 F.miniata - 'Flore
des Serres', plate 754 |
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F.nigricans
flowered first in Europa by
Linden with scarlet
sepals and darkviolet corollas [Flore des Serres plate481,
see Pict.22].
Of
F.procumbens
out of
New-Sealand, which perhaps was spread still more early than
F.nigricans,
there aren't known details.
In 1847
was imported the splendid
F.spectabilis Hook -
soon rightly named the queen
of fuchsias. The nursery Veith & Sons
sent this one in April
1848 to the exhibition of the Horticural Society in Regentstreet
in London,
And he received for it the great silver medal. F.spectabilis is
special remarkable because of the
wine-red branches, the darkgreen leaves and the splendid scarlet
flowers. |
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plant of Veith was
assembled by Lobb on the Andes
of Cuenca, but was allready
earlyer - in dried state -
brought with from Pambo de Yeerba buena (Ecuador)
for
'Hookers herbarium',
by
Seemann. From
F.spectabilis
was insert a picture in Flore des Serres
plate 359 and 360 [see
Pict.23].
Between this one and
F.miniata [Flore
des Serres, plate 754,
see Pict.24],
coming from New-Granada, exist a very close
relationship, |
(Will be continued in part IV)
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