THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
October, 1844. 
i 
THUNBERGIA CHRYSOPS. 
WITH AN ENGRAVING. 
We are much gratified by the opportunity of presenting to our 
readers a figure of this beautiful plant, which, from the various 
statements and opinions in circulation respecting it, is now ex¬ 
citing so much attention and inquiry. It is seldom, indeed, 
such a combination of beauty is met with in any single indi¬ 
vidual of the vegetable kingdom, as is presented to the admiring 
eye of taste in this instance. A blue Thunbergia, it is true, is 
not so startling a novelty as was the blue Nasturtium ; but those 
we already possess of the colour are extremely objectionable: 
the one on account of its rambling uncontrollable habit, and the 
great paucity of flowers by which it is distinguished ; and the 
other for its debilitated sickly character, which renders it very 
difficult even to keep in existence, the production of a plant 
m any thing like a healthy condition or a free-flowering state 
being something near an impossibility, a feat that has never 
yet, we believe, been achieved. 
In the plant before us, however, we have all these objections 
met in the most satisfactory manner; a habit of the most happy 
medium description, neat and compact, yet sufficiently robust to 
satisfy the most fastidious, uniting with a free developement of 
large and lovely flowers. We do not often indulge in such un¬ 
qualified praise but really it seems to us a most unenviable 
and difficult task to point out a blemish on this truly fine thing. 
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