Plate 129 . 
TEOPPEOLUM, 44 BALL OP EIRE.” 
In our last volume we figured a very brilliant variety of this 
useful bedding plant, raised by our friend Mr. Headly, of 
Stapleford, (named Eclipse,) and stated our opinion that it 
would prove a valuable addition to the high-coloured kinds; 
and that it was, in fact, the best in its class. This opinion has 
been fully borne out by the experience of the past season—by 
no means a favourable one for floriculture. Not only have 
private growers testified to its excellence, but at the Gardens 
of the Koyal Horticultural Society it has been noticed as the 
most brilliant of its colour, and a valuable acquisition for all 
gardening purposes. We have now the pleasure of figuring 
another, an advance (such is the rapid progress of horticulture) 
on it, and of which the following account has been forwarded 
to us by Mr. Arthur Henderson, of Pine-apple Place, by whom 
it has been purchased. 
“Tropseolum Ball of Fire was raised by Mr. Harman, of 
Uxbridge, who has a small garden, and raises on this piece of 
ground numbers of flower roots for the market, and collects 
seeds to sell again. The plant came up accidentally from seed 
raised from T. elegans , the Crystal Palace bedding variety ; 
the colour being so brilliant, and of that peculiar tint of the 
Tom Thumb Geranium, attracted at once attention. The other 
plants were removed away, and every chance given to it. Every 
day brought out its peculiarly high and telling colour. From 
a distance it seemed, as a gentleman standing by me observed, 
like a ball of fire, hence its name. It is of the true elegans 
habit, hairy and short-jointed, and a most abundant bloomer; 
indeed, bunches or little bouquets at the axils of the leaves 
make their appearance all over the plant, rendering it a bill- 
