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color. It is called Chinquepin in the South. They are 
easily divided by division of the roots. 
VICTORIA RECINA. 
This noble and gigantic Water Lily was found by Sir 
R. Schomburgh, in the year 1826 or 1827, growing in the 
tributaries of the Amazon River; in this country it has 
almost always proved of only annual duration, though 
one or two instances are on record of its living two years. 
The temperature of the water it is growing in should 
never fall below 80°. This can be grown in very few 
establishments, on account of the immense space it ro- 
quires in order to develope its beauties. The tank for 
growing this plant should be at least twenty feet in 
diameter, but it is better if about thirty, and circular; it 
should be fiom three to four feet in depth, and heated 
with hot water pipes. Some have pipes under the plant 
itself, but this is open to objection, as we have known the 
roots, and consequently the plant, much injured by com- 
ing in contact with them. The soil should be good mel- 
low loam and well decomposed manure, in about equal 
parts, and mixed with a good portion of river sand and a 
little peat. The quantity required will be about two 
loads; it should be well mixed, and placed in the tank 
before the water is admitted, after which the water should 
be run in, and be allowed to stand a week or two, so that 
the soil may become well warmed before an attempt is 
made to put the plant into it. Theseeds should be sown 
early in January, in asmall tank where a good command 
of heat is to be had, and a uniform temperature of about 
85° can be maintained. We have always found that the 
seeds vegetate very much quicker if a little soil is put at 
the bottom of the tank, and the seeds are just dropped on 
to it, than when sown in pots. As it is desirable to get 
