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 footstalks five or six feet high; flowers in July and August. 

 Introduced in 1787, and is figured in Exotic Botany, plates 

 31 and 32, also in the Botanical Magazine, plate 903. 



2. Nelumbium luteum : a native of America, growing in 

 heads of water, reserved for the use of the river mills, in the 

 states of Georgia and Carolina, and to the northward of 

 which, Mr. Fraser says, he never found it, although in 

 Pursii's Flora of North America, it is said to have been seen 

 near Philadelphia ; the leaves float, and are about eighteen 

 inches in diameter ; the flowers are yellow. This plant has 

 not yet bloomed in England ; and the time when it was first 

 introduced appears uncertain. 



The first species is decidedly a stove plant, and the second 

 must, at least for the present, be deemed one also. 



The hardy Menyanthes, Nymph&as, and all the Nuphars, 

 require but little attention, except a regulation of the depth 

 of water. They may be propagated by dividing the roots, 

 with the exception of Nymphcea nitida, which, from its struc- 

 ture, forms no eyes, but can be raised from seed, if sown in 

 water, as soon as ripe. This appears essential to obtain seed- 

 lings, with all the Nymphceas and Nuphars, although some 

 few seeds may vegetate, if kept dry through the winter; but 

 of this there is no certainty. Nymphcea pygmcea fructifies, 

 and sows its seeds, which grow without any care. 



For the purpose of growing these and other hardy aqua- 

 tics, I have a small brick pond, 4 feet 6 inches deep, in the 

 centre ; round which runs a shelf, 2 feet wide, and 18 inches 

 from the surface. In the centre are boxes standing, filled 

 with mould, for the larger species ; and on the shelf, I place 

 the smaller ones, in pots of various sizes. Besides the pond, 



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