A._Curtis_Botanical_Magazine

A.'Curtis's Botanical Magazine' from William & Samuel Curtis

In the begin the 'Curtis's Botanical Magazine' (1787) was published by William Curtis (1746-1799). He had followed a study as pharmaceutical, and was strongly interested in botany and than special in the floriculture of England. The first drawings of wild plants that were to be find around London, were assembled in the volume 'Flora Londensis', of which he is the publisher. This publication that appear from 1777 was defrayed by Lord Bute.

He published in it about 70 plates with on it drawings of weeds. While nurserymen are more interested in garden flowers than in weeds, he wasn't so successfully with this series. He switched over to the drawing of garden plants and published in 1887 the 'Curtis's Botanical Magazine', that became a very popular botanical volume and that appeared in various editions. This periodical not only became known by its unbelievable nice 'handcolored' plates of various plants, but also by the very detailed information inserted by each plant.

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'Curtis's Botanical Magazine' - Vol. 10 from 1854 with in it 67 handcoloured prints.

However there are published in it more a few botanical plates of his signature. Well-known botanical artists that delivered for this volume plates, are Sydenham Edwards, John Curtis, William Jackson Hooker, Walter Hood Fitch, William Graves and Mathilda Smith.

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F.coccinea (Dryander 1789)- Legend 'CHILE Scarlet Fuchsia 1789 Fuchsia Coccinea'. Plate 97 from Vol. 3 (1790). Is the first coloured print of a fuchsia !

F.splendens (Zuccarina 1844) - This is plate 4082 from the edition 1844. Found on mountain Fotanpeque and sent to RHS-collection in England by Hartweg

F.simplicicaulis - (Ruiz & Pavon 1802). This is one of 8 species that are found by these discoverers in the mountains of Andes (see also 'Flora Peruviana, Et Chilensis' ).

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F.serratifolia (Ruiz & Pavon 1802) - 'Serrated leaved fuchsia'. Fold-out plate no. 4174 in edition from 1845.

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F.lycioides - (Andrews 1800). Formerly known as the 'Boxthorn fuchsia', drawn by Sydenham Edwards and published in Vol. 26 from 1807, plate 1024.

F.corymbiflora - (Ruiz & Pavon 1802) -'Cluster-flowered Fuchsia' plate nr. 70 from about 1830. One of the many plates drawn by Edwards for Curtis. Now we know this species under the name F.boliviana.

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F.fulgens - A synonyme name is 'The glowing fuchsia', a plate from 1830

F.spectabilis (Hook 1847). From Vol. 74 from 1848, double plate 4375.

F.ampliata (Lindl.) - From edition 1834 , plate 3364.

F.integrifolia (Lindl.) - Regia species from Brazil. From the edition 1842, plate 3948

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F.arborescens (Sims 1825) - Plaat 2620 uit Vol. 1 van 1826 en daarom mogelijk de eerste afbeelding van deze species..

F.triphylla (Linn.) - Native of St. Domingo. Plate 6795 outof Vol. XLI from 1885.

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F.globosa (Lindl.) - ('Balloon-flowered fuchsia') From the edition 1834, plate 3364.

F.alpestris (Gardner) - ('Mountain fuchsia'). From the edition 1842, plate 3999.

F.macrostema (Ruiz & Pavon 1802) - ('Large stamened fuchsia, recurved variety). From volume 1836, plate 3521.

F.discolor (Lindl 1835) - ('Port-famina fuchsia'). From volume 1836, plate 3498.

F.procumbens (Cunningham 1839) - Plate 6139

F.bacillaris (Lindley 1832) - Plate 4506

'Gelderse Fuchsia Info-site'- November 2008