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 pro- 
duce a sin- 
gle bloom. 
The decree 
at length 
went forth 
from the 
long - suf- 
fering but 
patience- 
exhausted 
Curator to 
W. Saville-Kent, Photo. 
TREE-FERNS, p. 288. 
