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and the other for dry-stove plants ; consequently, part of both 

 divisions are not at all times properly treated, unless the culti- 

 vator be at much trouble in altering the mode of culture of 

 certain species to suit existing circumstances. Dry-stove 

 plants generally require an intermediate temperature between 

 the green-house and bark-stove, and a much drier atmosphere 

 than either, particularly the latter : they require always a great 

 degree of light, and should consequently be kept near to the 

 glass. Those which are succulents, require very little water, 

 particularly during winter, and in all cases more harm may be 

 expected from a too free application of that element, than an 

 almost entire want of it. 



STOVE AQUARIUM. 



The great bulk of cultivated aquatics are either hardy, and 

 capable of being cultivated in the open air, or they are so 

 tender as to require the same temperature as stove or tropical 

 plants. There are fewer examples of this kind of plant struc- 

 tures in this country, than of the other descriptions of houses 

 already noticed, not but that they are very interesting in their 

 way, and many of the plants which might be cultivated in 

 them are extremely curious, beautiful, and interesting. The 

 genus Nymphcea is exceedingly beautiful, and those oi Euryale, 

 Nelumhium^ and many others, extremely curious, and that of 

 Oryza and Papyrus highly interesting ; the former being the 

 rice of commerce, and the latter the well-known impyrus of 

 the ancients, the plant which furnished the materials on which 

 the most ancient of all records were written, and to which we 

 are indebted for our knowledge of events coeval with the 

 great Jewish legislator. As examples of Tropical Aquariums, 

 we may refer to those in the • gardens of the Duke of Marl- 

 borough at White Knights, in which were cultivated for a 

 considerable time a rich collection of these plants, but which, 

 from causes of a private nature, is now discontinued. One 

 of these houses may be described as being a span-roofed house, 

 having the sides and ends also of glass as low as the top of 

 the flues. Instead of the bed, or stage, in the other stoves, 

 a large cistern is here substituted, having a walk round it. 



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