TRO PdE O LUM FERE G R I N U M . 
EXOTIC INDIAN CRESS. 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
TROP.EOLACE X.. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 1 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. Granada. 
6 feet. 
July to Sep. 
Perennial. 
in 1810. 
No. 833. 
The generic name, Tropaeolum, is less applica- 
ble to this plant than to the common species, its 
leaf bearing no resemblance to a shield, nor its 
flower to a helmet. See No. 427. 
This is a free climber, and abundant flowerer; 
hence, for covering a trellis, wall, or spreading 
over ornamental wire-work, it is fully equal to its 
more delicate allies. It may be advantageously 
trained horizontally, or in fan-shape, on a wall ; or 
it will run up the small branches of wall-fruit trees; 
and being of light foliage, it may be allowed to do 
so without injury thereby occurring to the tree. It 
is not supplied with tendrils for climbing, like the 
pea or vine, but nature, ever fertile in means to ac- 
complish the ends required, has given long petioles 
to its leaves, and these it twists round the objects it 
meets with, and raises itself from the damp earth 
into sunshine, for preservation and display. 
If its seeds be put, singly, into pots, they may be 
conveniently forwarded in a hotbed, and the plants 
being transplanted into the open ground in May, 
without breaking the balls of earth about their 
roots, they will flower abundantly, 
20 ®- Don’s Syst. Bot. 1, 747. 
