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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Tlie exquisite azurean tint of the tliroat of its flowers is really inimitable, andwholly defies the skill of the artist; while the bluish-white colour of the otherparts of the corolla, contributes much to exhibit that just mentioned to the greatestadvantage. Ample directions for the cultivation of Gloxinias may be found at page 127 ofthe fourth volume of this Magazine, where, also, some interesting particulars relativeto that subject are communicated. To these we have nothing at present to add,any fmther than to recommend the practice of hybridizing them, seeing that it hasbeen attended with such very successful and pleasing results. The plant which formed the subject of our present figure has flowered mostprofusely and repeatedly in the nursery of Mr. Young, Epsom, and the drawingwas obtained in the month of July last. The generic name was applied by LHeritier to commemorate Dr. BenjaminPeter Gloxin, of Colmar, who published a work on the genus Martpiia, and someother of its allies.
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y%^/^Aa /^/ /t.6/^i:^?^?^tj 221 FUCHSIA FULGENS. (brilliant lUCHSU.)CLASS. OHIJK.R. OCTANDRIA. MONOGYISIA. NATURAL ORDER. ONAGRACEiE. Generic Character.—See vol. iv. p. 75. Specific Character Plant a robust shrub. Branches smooth. Leaves opposite, cordately ovate, acute, denticulate, smooth. Peduncles axillary, shorter than the flowers. Flowers in terminalracemes. Calyx five-lobed; lobes ovato-lanceolate, acute. Petals somewhat acute, exceedingthe calyx. Ovary green, covered with small excrescences. The highly ornamental and favourite genus of which this splendid plant formsa part, contains no species which can at all vie with the present in beauty ormagnificence. The very extraordinary size and luxuriance of its stems and foliage,combined with the great length and striking brilliancy of the colour of its flowers,together with the fact of their being produced so abundantly, and also in terminalracemes, have rendered it exceedingly popular during the present year among allthe devotee

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