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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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t,received it in 1836 from the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and in the absence of anyspecific infonnation on the subject, we presume it was introduced thither by )\Ir.Drummond, as it is doubtless a native of North America. It is perfectly hardy, having endured the whole of the late severe A^-inter in theopen ground, without any protection, and is now vegetating most rapidly. It 28 LTATRIS BOREALIS. appears to thrive well in any soil, but deliglits mnpt in a mixture of loam and peat,with the common treatment of other herbaceous plants. The flowers are produced in great abundance, and a strong plant will throw upmany stems. It may be readily propagated by the tubers, as a single tuber will make a very good plant. Our drawing was taken from a plant in i\Ir. Youngs nursery, Epsom, inSeptember 1837, where it flowered during the months of August and September. Generic name—the meaning of this word is unknown. The specific name doubtless alludes to the plant being found in a northerlysituation.
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.i/rAo^^U/yfy^y /aybi^u/,. 29 TROPiEOLUM JARRATTII. (jauratts trop;eolum.) class. okder. OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, NATURAL ORDER. TROVMOhEM. Generic Character.—See vol. ii. p. 193. SpEcitic Character Root perennial. Stem climbing, slender, but far more vigorous than T. tri. colorum ; much branched. Leaves alternate, six and seven lohcd. Leaf-stalk one inch long, slender,twining like the branches. Flower-stalks from one inch and a half to two inches and a half long.Calyx bright orange scarlet, with spots of yellow at the base, five-cleft; segments blunt. Petals five,inserted on the calyx jnst below the incision of the segments, bright yellow, the two upperpencilled with a rich brown. Stamens eight. Style shorter than the stamens. Germen three-lobed. This new and highly interesting species of Tropaeolum was imported in August1836, from Santiago, by Messrs. Youell, nurserymen and florists, Yarmouth; andnamed by them in compliment to John Jarratt, Esq., of Camerton House, nearBath, a spirit

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