OR, THE HOME-CULTURE OF FRESH-WATER PLANTS. 



To this list must be added the species of native 

 Water Lilies, where space admits : 



...... | The^TOte Water Lily (Plate 



The small Yellow Water Lily 



(Plate IL, No. 3). 

 Villarsia, nympkceoides .... The Lily-like Yillarsia. 



"When there is sufiicient space and a certain de- 

 gree of warmth, foreign species of the Water Lily 

 tribe may be added, as the beautiful Nymphcea 

 ccerulea, one or two of the Euryali tribe, and 

 even the giant Victoria regia; but as one leaf 

 alone of this Titanic example of water vegetation 

 would cover the space of half a dozen drawing- 

 room Aquaria, it is in ordinary cases out of the 

 question. The ingeniously persevering processes of 

 Chinese gardeners might, indeed, be able to reduce 

 the scale of this stately queen of the waters of the 

 Amazon to such a scale as would enable them to 

 grow it in one of their own quaintly painted minia- 

 ture tea- saucers ; but we have not, as yet, at- 

 tained to much skill in this kind of " gardening in 

 small." 



To these plants may be added some of the 



