80 ROYAL WATER-LILY. 



where they are treated in the same manner as that 

 plant, show how well a general collection of aqua- 

 tics, grown somewhat in the way we have men- 

 tioned, would succeed. 



Before concluding our account of the Victoria 

 Water-Lily, it may not be out of place to allude to 

 the circumstance, that a drawing of this Koyal plant 

 occupies a prominent position in the diploma of the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh, which contains a 

 delineation of the principal vegetable productions 

 characteristic of the tropics, as well as of those 

 inhabiting our own northern land. The seal of the 

 Botanical Society of London is also adorned by a 

 representation of the Koyal Lily another instance 

 of the great esteem in which the Victoria is held by 

 botanists. 



