THE HYBRIDIZERS......
It was during the 1820s and 1830s that the growers and the nurserymen
of the day turned their attention to hybridizing and it was due to the
skill and patience of these breeders that we were rewarded with the
first
recorded hybrid when Bunney of Stratford, London, crossed either F.
coccinea
or F. conica with F. Micriphylla to obtain in 1832 "globosa" a hybrid
with
a very short tube.
A few years later F. Fulgens from Mexico was introduced by T. Hartweg.
F. Fulgens was totally different from any other species in circulation
at that time, having a very long orange-red tube with short sepals and
petals with very large foliage. This was to have an influence upon
later
cultivars.
The firs list of fuchsias appears in 1844 when F. M. Porcher in France
listed some 300 species and varieties in the first edition of "Le
Fuchsia,
son histoire et sa culture" fillowed in 1848 by his second edition,
this
time with 520 species and varieties.
Dernière modification : 6 décembre 2011
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