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conditions for a water-loving annual grass. Sunny areas should 
be chosen, and the larger they are the better will be the chances of 
success. 
The depredations of water-fowl and perhaps water-rats may 
have to be guarded against, and for safety’s sake a quantity of 
seeds should be gathered each autumn and kept immersed in water 
until sowing time. 
The Rev. M. C. H. Bird, Brunstead Rectory, Stalham, 
Norfolk, reports that he has made several attempts to establish 
Canadian Rice in the broads and dykes of Norfolk, but either the 
seeds were devoured by water voles, or the young plants were 
worried by aquatic birds. 
The only wild bird at Kew that appears to have discovered the 
value of the Zizania seeds as a food is the sparrow. I have 
frequently disturbed a flock of perhaps twenty of them feeding on 
the seeds of the group of plants here illustrated. But, according 
to Lord Walsingham’s experience, ducks also, when they find the 
fallen seed, eat it greedily. 
Our illustration is from a photograph of a group of plants of 
Zizania aquatica growing at the edge of the Lily pond in the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Kew. ; 
LVII.-THE MANCHURIAN WATER-RICE. 
(Zizania latifolia, Turez.) 
Orto StTapr, 
bour, Flora Rossica, vol. iv. p- 466), the 
(atifolium, distinguishing it from its American congener by 
awned male spikelets. Steu D 
under the name of Zizania dahurica, 
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