VEGETABLE VAGARIES. 



287 



coign of vantage " over the garden 

 wall," relentingly unbent to her 

 constant wooer, and furnished the 

 subject of our picture. 



The photographic replica 

 forming the lower of the two floral 

 subjects included in Plate L. is a 

 highly interesting instance of feli- 

 citous acclimatisation somewhat 

 accidentally brought about. The 

 location, as in the case of two of 

 the Cacti previously referred to, is 

 the Botanical Gardens, Adelaide, 

 and the aquatic plant figured is a 

 Brazilian species, Pontideria cras- 

 sipes, locally termed the " Water 

 Hyacinth." For many years this 

 Pontideria was tenderly nursed 

 and coddled in the warm water, 

 Victoria regia, tanks of the adja- 

 cent hothouses, - but without its 

 condes- 

 cending 

 to p r o- 

 duce a sin- 

 gle bloom. 

 The decree 

 at length 

 went forth 

 from the 

 long - suf- 

 fering but 

 patience- 

 exhausted 

 Curator to 



If. SnrilJf-Stnt, Photo. 



TKKK-rKKNS, p. 288. 



