THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
July, 1845. 
THE GENUS TROP^OLUM. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
The species of this highly ornamental and interesting genus are 
for the most part natives of Chili and Peru, and bear with us the 
character of half-hardy plants, suitable alike for enriching the ap¬ 
pearance of either the greenhouse, conservatory, or open borders 
of the flower garden ; in fact, so numerous and varied have the 
species lately become, that fitting subjects for either or all these 
situations may be readily selected from among them, preserving 
at the same time the necessary difference in habit and general 
contour that should distinguish each position. 
In a cultural view the genus may be divided into about three 
groups; the first consisting of the slender growing tuberous 
rooted kinds, properly referred to in-door ornamental purposes, 
of which division our illustration may be taken as an example; 
the second, composed of such as have tubers, and possess a more 
robust character, which extend themselves over a far greater 
space, and thus present most excellent forms for the embellish¬ 
ment of walls, arbours, and other out-door scenery; and the 
third, containing the annual species, which, with a single ex¬ 
ception, are regarded rather as culinary than ornamental plants. 
The species of the first division may be enumerated as 
T. Jarattii , a native of Santiago, introduced in 1836 ; T. bra- 
chyceras, from Chili in 1830; T. azureum , from Chili in 1842; 
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