64 PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING. 



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^eolum 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. 



Trop^olttm Smithii. A brilliant red variety, a native 

 of the high mountains of Columbia ; treat as T. majus ; 

 will bloom well in the open border. 



Trop^eoltjm Randii. A very fine seedling of Mr. 

 Joseph Breck's ; a very vigorous grower ; the writer has, in 

 one summer, had one side of a large green-house covered by 

 a small plant. This variety has the desirable property of 

 blooming equally well as a border plant in the summer and 

 in the green-house in winter. The color of the flower is 

 brilliant yellow ; the base of each petal marked with a 



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