586 Report on Remarkable Esculent Vegetables, fyc. 

 Small Nasturtium. 

 To those who cultivate Nasturtiums in their gardens for 

 the sake of their seed pods to pickle, this kind is preferable. 

 The common Nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus, and its dwarf 

 variety are both runners, and require the support of stakes ; 

 without which they will extend widely over the borders. 

 This is the Nasturtium minus of botanists, and the Capucine 

 petite of the French. The whole plant is much smaller 

 than the dwarf variety of T. majus, not exceeding ten or 

 twelve inches in height, and it grows to about two feet in 

 length. The leaves are small, with a small runner termi- 

 nating each lobe. The flowers are small, of a deep golden 

 yellow, not much expanded, the three lower petals having 

 a blotch of scarlet at the base, the upper ones are delicately 

 striped with the same colour towards the base, the spur is 

 also longer than in T. majus. It flowers very abundantly. 

 The seed vessels are rather smaller than those of T. majus. 



