Plate -'is."). 

 TROP^OLUM, MRS. TREADWELL. 



So long as the present system of bedding-out continues in 

 vogue (and some modification of it must needs ever be the 

 fashion, although its extravagancies may be curtailed), so long 

 will these plants width produce brilliant scarlet flowers be 

 valued. The Zonale Geranium will take perhaps the foremost 

 place; but we are inclined to think that the different varieties 

 of scarlet-flowering Tropoeolums will be nearly, if not quite as 

 effective. In long ribbon borders especially are they verj 

 useful, where excellence of habit is combined with profusion 

 of bloom. 



There has been, in a former year, figured in the pages of 

 the 'Floral Magazine, 1 a very fine variety useful for this pur- 

 pose; Henderson's Ball of Fire, and the flowers of other 

 misers, have been highly recommended and largely used for 

 this purpose; but the variety which we now figure will, we 

 believe, surpass all others that have been used hitherto. It 

 is utterly impossible in some colours to give the hues of na- 

 ture, although there are persons who are constantly speaking 

 of the exaggerations of flower-painters. In no colour is this 

 more apparent than in scarlet; it needs but to place any sen- 

 let flower alongside the most brilliant colour of the artist to 

 at once see how immeasurably short it falls of the original ; 

 and thus it is impossible to give the brilliant hue of this very 

 fine Tropceolum. 



Mrs. Treadwell was exhibited by the Messrs. F. and 11. 

 Smith, of Dulwich, before the Floral Committee, and was ac- 

 corded a first-class certificate. It has been considered by all 

 who have seen it as surpassing all varieties hitherto in cultiva- 

 tion. Its habit is exceedingly dwarf and compact, remarkably 



