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greenhouse or other steam or hot-water plant near by. But 

 where such faciUties are available the results generally well 

 repay the effort, for nothing of an aquatic growth can exceed 

 the grandeur of the immense floating leaves and large gor- 

 geously colored flowers of this plant. 



Fig. 173. — Water-poppy (Limnocharis H-iunholdtii) . 



Many other water-loving plants besides the water-hlies 

 may be used with good effect in aquatic gardens. These 

 may be di\'ided into those growing directly in deep water 

 and those growing in the moist soil on its borders. Of the 

 first are the 



Water-hyacinth {Eichhornia crassipes). — The flowers of 

 this plant resemble those of the common light-blue hyacinth, 



