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yellow rhizomes^, which, however, does not indicate different varieties,, 
but only different age and dif f erent^feartl^orapositions, which do not: des- 
troy or dissolve but blacken the rhizomes,. 
What 2) deterinines the size of the entire plant; the inf lorescense, 
and leaves- as a variety^^which^ Sims uses in species ^ minor and Rafii- 
nesque (I.e.) in his i^parrif lora^^I consider this character even more 
variable ( inconstant,E. D. ) than the color. Every grower of Nymphaceae 
knowsjbhat the size, the strength- and SptxKxy of his plants,their flo- 
wers and leave^epends entirely on the circiimstances under which he 
prrows them. If one wants small plamts with' small leaves and flowers,, 
and which flower sparinsrly, then one puts the seedlings in small' pots 
in poor soilj even rieh soil makes thera only a little larger.If I want 
medium-large plants, I plant them in good or best soili in raedium^size 
or large pots.If I want outstanding,large plants with large flowers,, 
I put the seedlings of the same fruit, which furnished the small plants 
with small flowers in small pots, into the open soil^ or very large Con- 
tainers, to be cared for the best way and also with manure.Truelings (a 
word Caspary invented, E. D. ) , i.e.. plants, which have self-seeded' in 
large Containers- and good soil,reach the most significant size of all;, 
as they prrew under opportime conditions,, As in . artif iciall culture so 
as 
ftH3 Nature.Poor soil, little nurishment makes small plants - and /the 
soil in entire land areas is often the same, one has as long as it 
remains poor and. the same small plants, often in entire districts ^ 
Büt do they remain so, if one gives them^' better conditionStVery^ rieh',, 
good soill ? 'Def initely not©. I have seen^^that miserable plants of 
Nymphaea alba and Nuphar luteuir - v. Leonard! onee sent me very/ f ew 
specimens from Bohemia-, which he thought to be Nuphar pumilum^ be— 
came large and streng in good soil^ really extraordinarly large, , and 
one had the old' var. minor and maxima on the same stock, the best^ 
proof ,that there were no varieties^». 
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