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From the history of the fuchsias - Part VI |
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We give now here a list of very nice fuchsias, borrowed
from the'Manual de jardinage , 2e druk',
author Jühlke,director
of the royal park in Potsdam,
by which is to notice, that this could become consirable
enlarged: |
| I. Red
and purple and violet single fuchsias: 'Sir
Robert Peel',
'Lord Warden',
'Edith', 'Souvenir de Chiswick'
and
the dwarffuchsia
'Comte de Cavour'.
The first two can serve as exemples of fuchsias
with a crinoline formed spread-out corolla. |
| II.Red
and red-purple double fuchsias :
'Sir Colin Campbell'
and
'Universal'. |
| III.
Fuchsia's with a double white corolla :
'Madame Cornelissen'. |
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Fuchsias with a single white crown :
'Princess of Prussia'. |
| .V.
Fuchsias with light nuances;
the antique cultivars
'Annie Wiltshire Lass',Elegantissima',
which are better than the newer ones. |
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Fuchsias, which are remarkable by the contrast
of their colours en the elegance of the strong filled corolla;
'Jozef
Cornelissen', 'Sécrétaire Mottin'
and
'De Tollenaere'. |
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The strain after obtaining of new cultivars is
still always going on, such as seems from the annual published
catologues of the nurserymen. Yes, it is probable, that the
fuchsias just like the stock-gillyflowers and asters
ever will go out of mode.
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That is short the history of the fuchsias.
Just like many other plants, which were imported from
foreign continents, they became grown up in the begin with the largest
care in heated greenhouses. According
however people became informed better because of the natural
standing-places and was informed over the geografical spreading,
they succeeded also to do her undergoing all sorts of
modifications in culture. Each year there were published in
gardenmagazines/books about growing fuchsias and special there are
destined for fuchsialovers
numbers of articles; and not without reason Jäger
explains that against one article about a historical
fact, people meet twenty about the culture of fuchsias.
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About the generation fuchsia there exist few
monographs and among this are those of French origine the best ones.
The first volume that an exact knowledge from all that
has relation with fuchsias, considerable contributed, was an essay
of Pierre
Jozeph Buchoz, with as title
'Mémoire
sur la Mélaleuq l'Ixora, le Fuchsia, etc.'.
However better was the work of Porcher
about the subject, that with the
simple title
'Le
Fuchsia, son histoire et culture'
in
1867 went through a third edition. In 1865
the same author delivered a
methodical and descriptive synopsis of all
important cultivars of this much searched ornamental plant, that
surpassed by conciseness and exactness, |
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Resumé
(Red.) |
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These series articles outof 1867 mentions the
fact that F.coccinea not
only the first found species in South-America is, but this one
also has been the first imported fuchsia in England. |
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However there are in
literature pictures in botanical books, that give that
following fuchsia species are found sooner then
F.coccinea
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Pict.1 - F.triphylla
in 'Nova Plantarum Americanum Genera' 1703 - Author: P.Carolo Plumier |
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Pict.2 - F.magellanica
macrostemma in 'Journal des Observations Botaniques' Vol.III
from 1725, plate
47. Author: Père R.P.L.Feuillé. (Macrostemma =
with long stamen, and that is also to see on
this drawing. |
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November 2008 |
