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in each, according to their habit of growth. The cisterns are 

 then filled with water, by degrees. As the plants advance in 

 size, they must be replenished, and cleared from conferva^ 

 as often as necessary ; and if they are occasionally watered, 

 over their leaves, from a watering pot, through a rose, their 

 vigour will be greatly increased. It is important to keep 

 them in a constant state of growth: for if checked, they will 

 form bulbs ; and grow no more during the season. This 

 will be caused by cold ; but this year, the heat in June pro- 

 duced the effect, although they were shaded from the sun's 

 rays, by matting, and the lights considerably raised. Where 

 dung is used, there is like danger, from its heating. After 

 being planted out, they will shew flowers, in the course of a 

 month, and some of them will continue blooming through 

 the season. As soon as the plants have done flowering, and 

 perfected their seeds, they disappear, and form bulbs in the 

 mud. These, in the month of October, I put into small pots 

 (60 to the cast), and place them in a trough of water, in the 

 stove, where they remain dormant until the ensuing spring. 

 The seeds are most likely to vegetate, if sown at the same 

 time, and treated in the same manner. Nijmphce crendea 

 will flower in the stove ; but not so finely as in the frame. 

 Nymphtea stellata seeds freely, but the root does not easily 

 divide ; indeed it is best grown, when treated as an annual. 

 Euryale ferox does well under similar treatment to that of 

 the Nymphaas; its seed should be sown about Christmas, 

 and kept in the cistern of the stove. 



The culture of Nelumbium is not so easily defined. Many 

 persons, who have succeeded in growing, and flowering the 

 first species, have lost the plant, during the winter. It is easily 



