Judging from the increased interest taken during recent years 

 in the cultivation of Aquatic Plants, and the paucity of 

 reliable information respecting them that is readily available to 

 the majority of horticultural readers, it is hoped that the 

 particulars referring to them in the following pages will in some 

 degree serve the purpose that has occasioned their appearance. 

 Every contribution that has for its object the desire to familiarise 

 the many interesting and picturesque plants which are included 

 in this chapter cannot but serve a useful purpose, for it is 

 certain that the more a general knowledge of them increases, the 

 more popular will they become, and the greater will be the 

 encouragement for expert growers of them to secure and 

 distribute new and improved forms of some of the genera. Just 

 in proportion to the care that is bestowed on the various 

 requirements of the plants, and the careful consideration given to 

 the disposition of a desirable selection of them, will be the 

 measure of success that may be fairly anticipated. 



