OE, THE HOME-CULTURE OF FEESH- WATER PLANTS. 



The pretty plant growing with it, in the same 

 Plate, is the Sundew, which delights also in damp 

 situations. Its leaves delicately fringed with pink, 

 and its pretty rose-coloured blossoms, combined 

 with its general neatness of growth, make it a 

 generally desirable plant for the Aquarium, in 

 which, with proper care, it thrives well. 



In the centre of the vessel I have placed an 

 Arum (Calla ^Ethiopica), a plant which always 

 nourishes best in water, forming a truly magnifi- 

 cent ornament for the borders of ponds, where I 

 have seen it introduced with great success. In 

 such situations it dies down in the winter; but 

 protected by a sufficient depth of water, does not 

 suffer from, any degree of frost, though a very slight 

 one is sufficient to destroy it when grown in a pot. 

 In the Aquarium it forms a very beautiful object. 

 The foliage rises like a column of some semi-trans- 

 parent green marble through the water, spreading 

 into a finely foliaged capital above ; and when the 

 flowers eventually shoot up from this fine coronet 

 of elegantly formed leaves, the effect is magnificent. 

 But, even before the appearance of the flowers, there 

 cannot be a finer central object for an Aquarium than 

 a group of such leaves as those of the majestically 

 graceful Calla. Among aquatic flowering plants, 



