. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 258;. Flower of Trop^o- lum minus (X ;' 3). Oue of t)ie lower petals sli'twu at a. 2586. Trop^olum majus. 13. minus, I^inu. Fig. Dwarf annual, not clim!-- ing, smaller ill all its : Ivs. apiculate at the ends of the veins: tl«. with narrow apiculate petals. Peru. likely blended with
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 258;. Flower of Trop^o- lum minus (X ;' 3). Oue of t)ie lower petals sli'twu at a. 2586. Trop^olum majus. 13. minus, I^inu. Fig. Dwarf annual, not clim!-- ing, smaller ill all its : Ivs. apiculate at the ends of the veins: tl«. with narrow apiculate petals. Peru. likely blended with T. zatiou, in garden forms. T. (Jif]if('ft>:irf^t. Climber, wit h root : ri-7-lolic<l: tls. yellow. 1 in. iu diani., ilu-' s|iiir loiit; petals liuibriatL-. Venezuela.â 2'. â 'â¢lulr, I'axt, uljlish their ex- periences in languav;e where ]>raise is not stinted. Some, on the other hand, nearly ever}' trojucal fi'uit with prej- udiee and <lts(l;tin and lie persuaded \v taste, and if eventually persuaded, only to condemn with aversion. Fnder su(di circnnistam.'es it is not to lie at that in some (jmirters tropical fruits should be held in I'igh esteem, ami in others be considered of doubtful \'alue. That good tropical fruits d(j really exist cannot he dis])uted, although on careful exaniiiniti<.in they are found to be few iu uumljer, and sonie kinds far from common even in the local markets. True tropical fruits may be describe<l as those requiring a temperature from 10^'' to :i2° centigrade or (iO° to !)U^ Fahr. Among the subtropical fruits there are some which appear to thrive in the tropics as well as in their motive place, btit whether this is really so m;iy be questioned. An\'differences in the conditions nf the fruits on the ripening stage will account fiu- diflh-ulties often met with in preparing them for export. Such is the orange, for instance; it thrives well under tropical conditions aiul give
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