TROPiE'OLUM LOBBIA'NUM. 
MR. LOBBS INDIAN CRESS. 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGVNIA. 
Natural Order. 
TR0PA20LACE JE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Columbia 
6 feet. 
Autumn. 
Perennial. 
in 1843. 
No. 1113. 
Linneus’s fanciful, but elegant name, as Sir J. 
E. Smith calls it, is not quite so applicable to the 
modern discoveries in the genus Tropseolum as it 
was to that well-known species on which he found- 
ed it — the Tropseolum majus, or Nasturtium, 
as it is usually called. The word is derived from 
the Greek tropaion, a war-like trophy — the leaves 
representing shields, and the flowers helmets. 
This novelty was discovered in Columbia, by Mr. 
Lobb, the botanical collector of the Messrs. Veitcli 
and Son, nurserymen of Exeter. It has been erro- 
neously called an annual ; although it may be cul- 
tivated as such for the open garden, where the 
brilliant orange-red colour of its flowers, can but 
attract admiration. Its herbaceous twining stems 
will require the support of trellis-work, to exhibit 
it advantageously; indeed, it could scarcely be 
more suitably cultivated than in a pot, having a 
wire trellis of any shape, most pleasing to the 
fancy of the cultivator ; it may then have a place 
as a window plant, for which it is very suitable, 
as well as for the open garden. It may be readily 
propagated from cuttings. 
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