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found in the pot. Now remove the pot from 

 the water, and let it become nearly dry. Take 

 out the tuber, place it in clean sand, and keep 

 it in a moist, temperate, or warm greenhouse 

 atmosphere until next March. Never let 

 the tuber get hard and desiccated, nor should 

 it get really wet. It needs only a gentle 

 air-drying. 



Now, to propagate, set pot and sand and 

 tuber in a warm tank in March. The tuber 

 should be planted about an inch deep. Soon 

 a shoot comes out, sends up leaves to the 

 surface of the water, and makes roots. When 

 one good floating leaf is established, wash 

 away the sand from roots and tuber, care- 

 fully break off the shoot with its roots from 

 the apex of the tuber, and replant both 

 plantlet and tuber. Of course the plantlet 

 now goes into rich earth. The tuber should 

 give off at least one more shoot. The first 

 plant is pushed forward for flowering, the next 

 is kept to form a tuber for the following year. 



The easiest tender nymphaeas to grow, to 

 keep over winter, and to increase from the 



