Trees and Shrubs
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is not clearly defined. In broad terms it includes all plants with woody stems except conifers and fruit trees and shrubs.
Fuchsia ‘Dr Jephson’
‘Sepals of a clear snowy white, corolla a rich deep rose, habit of Willmoreana, and a profuse bloomer.’ [GC p.281/1846].
Fuchsia ‘Epsii’
In a report of Vauxhall Gardens show it was recorded as a ‘dark variety’. At this time this usually meant a single flower with crimson tube and sepals and purple corolla. [Gard. Chron. 1851].
Fuchsia ‘Sir Henry Pottinger’
A cultivar of unknown parentage. ‘Sir H. Pottinger […] habit is that of Eppsii, quite equal in size, and a very free bloomer; tube and sepals of a delicate light flesh colour slightly veined with pink; sepals well expanded showing the beautiful dark crimson and purple corolla.’ Advertisement. [GC p.253/1845].
Fuchsia ‘Splendidissima’
In 1852, in the pages of The Gardeners Chronicle, Edward George Henderson & Son, of St Johns Wood, advertised the Fuchsia ‘Splendidissima’ for sale: ‘Unrivalled first class show flower, for exhibition purposes; the flowers of large size and great substance; sepals well reflexed, with fine, smooth, crimson tube, and large violet-purple corolla; the plant of good habit and free flowerer; altogether this is a very superior variety.’ [Gard. Chron. 1852].
Fuchsia ‘Stormentii’
‘A fuchsia, called Stormentii, from France, was very handsome.’ [The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and all useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs vol.XII, p.202/1846]. I have found no description of this cultivar.
Fuchsia Banks’ ‘Climax’
Banks’ new seedling fuchsia of 1855, ‘Climax’, was described in glowing terms in an advertisement in The Gardeners Chronicle: ‘Tube stout, sepals very broad reflex, with a pretty curve or half circle, the points of the petals touching the seed vessel; colour, rich velvety crimson – the corolla is very large, of a splendid violet blue and great substance; habit; robust and blooms particularly free.’ [Gard. Chron 1855].
Fuchsia Banks’ ‘Glory’
‘First Class Certificates were awarded to Mr. Smith for 2 seedling Fuchsias, Glory (Banks’); a fine variety, with scarlet tube and sepals well reflexed, of good substance, corolla violet purple, smooth and even on the edge and stout.’ Report of the National Floricultural Society summer show. [Gard. Chron. June 19th, 1852].
Fuchsia Banks’ ‘Prince Albert’
Banks’ ‘Prince Albert’ is described in the Floricultural Cabinet: ‘Tube and sepals scarlet crimson, much reflexed. Corolla a rich violet, very handsome.’ [FC p.279/1854].
