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majus, but we believe the best authorities agree on the 

 latter being the oldest known variety. Be this as it may, 

 both were known in Europe at a very early period. The 

 plants of Tropceolum minus, and its varieties, may always 

 be distinguished from those of Tropceolum majus, and its 

 varieties, by the leaves ; in the former, the nerves of the 

 leaves always end in a point, which is never the case with 

 those of the latter. 



TEOP^EOLTJM LOBBIANUM, sometimes called T. peltoplw- 

 rum. One of the very finest ; first collected by Mr. .Lobb, 

 in Columbia. A rampant grower, and free flowerer in the 

 green-house ; color of flowers, orange scarlet. The tem- 

 perature of the house to bloom it well, should be kept 

 about fifty degrees ; a slight watering of liquid manure should 

 occasionally be given. It does not succeed well with us in 

 the open border ; our summers are too short, and the plants 

 are apt to be nipped by the frost just as they are fully set 

 with flower buds ; it strikes freely from cuttings, and pro- 

 duces seed sparingly. Most of our fine, new varieties are 

 probably hybrids between this and the following. 



TKOP^EOLITM PULCHERRIMUM. Like the last, a rampant 

 grower ; color of flowers, bright yellow, with starry rays of 

 orange scarlet at the base of the petal ; a free flowerer in 

 the green-house. Culture like the last. 



