é 
$ 
Tas. 4665. 
NYMPHAHA (HysBripa) DEvoNIENSts. 
Duke of Devonshire’s Nymphea ; hybrid. 
Nat. Ord. NYMPH#ACER.— POLYANDRIA Monoeynia. 
2m 
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Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4257.) 
as 
Nympnma Devoniensis. Paxton, in Gardeners’ Chronicle, for Saturday, 10th July, 
1852. (For specific characters and synonyms of the parent species, see 
Nymphea rubra, Tas. 1280, and N. Lotus, Tas. 797.) 
Hybrida, Devoniensis ; floribus foliisque multo majoribus, calyce basi conico 
pallido, staminibus erectis. Tas. Nostr. 4665. 
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For the opportunity of figuring this truly splendid plant, we 
are indebted to Mrs. Spode, the lady of Joshua Spode, Esq. 
Armitage Park, Rugely, Staffordshire, whose gardens and rare 
exotics are celebrated in the neighbourhood, and are likely to be 
still more so from the taste and skill displayed by their generous 
proprietors, and by the zeal and energy of their intelligent head 
gardener. The Nympheacee, including the Victoria, are there 
cultivated in great perfection ; but however interesting this latter 
plant may be, and is, in size and structure, it does not surpass in 
beauty the present, which was contributed to their aquarium from 
Chatsworth : and it is this, we presume, which we find mentioned 
in the leading article of the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ above quoted. 
The writer, after recommending the advantages that might be 
his patron. > In leaf and flower it has a great advantage in pomt 
AuGusT Ist, 1852. s 
