. Vick's floral guide. unicolor, have a dark, purplish eye,almost black. For house culture, baskets and vases,there are few plants superior to the Thunbergia. Theymay be used very effectively in beds, pegged Bakeri, pure white ; very fine, . alata, yellow or buff, with dark eye, alata unicolor, yellow, aurantiaca, bright orange, with dark eye, . . aurantiaca unicolor, bright orange, Above mixed, TROP^OLUM. The Tropseolum majus, or Nasturtiums, are amongour very cleanest and prettiest and best Climbers. Theyrequire but little care, for seed sown in the spring of theyear in any f
. Vick's floral guide. unicolor, have a dark, purplish eye,almost black. For house culture, baskets and vases,there are few plants superior to the Thunbergia. Theymay be used very effectively in beds, pegged Bakeri, pure white ; very fine, . alata, yellow or buff, with dark eye, alata unicolor, yellow, aurantiaca, bright orange, with dark eye, . . aurantiaca unicolor, bright orange, Above mixed, TROP^OLUM. The Tropseolum majus, or Nasturtiums, are amongour very cleanest and prettiest and best Climbers. Theyrequire but little care, for seed sown in the spring of theyear in any fair garden soil will produce plants ten ortwelve feet in height before autumn. They do not re-quire even a rich soil, for a rich soil is apt to be produc-tive of leaves rather than flowers. They bear hot anddry weather very well, and we believe are not troubledby any insect, for the stems and leaves contain a pun-gent juice they do not like. In some places youngshoots are used as a salad. and the seed pods are con-. foliage as in the flowers. The leaves of some are verylight transparent green, while in others they are very dark,almost purplish. The flowers are of almost all shadesof yellow, scarlet, striped and spotted. The climbingTropaeolum is an excellent plant for baskets, vases, etc.,and can even be used for bedding by pegging down thebranches occasionally. Our engravings show the flow-er of Tropseolum majus nearly natural size, also thatpretty little variety Tropseolum peregrinum, commonlyknown as the Canary Flower.
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