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at its cultivation in Broadland. With care, and in suitable 
situations, and with the help of a hot summer, I see no reason 
why Zizania aquatica should not seed out-of-doors in this 
district ; but where water voles abound the experiment will be 
attended with much difficulty. Mr. Watson has, I believe, 
failed to succed at Palling, and Mr. G. Davison did not get any 
plants to seed at Westwick ; so I have fallen in good company. 
I add the following cultural directions : — The seed should be 
kept in water (glass pickle- jars answer well) until February. 
It may then be sown in earthenware (flower-pot) saucers filled 
with mud, which must be kept in a quite moist state, and near 
the light ; or in pots filled three-parts-full of earth and stood in 
pans of water ; or in small pots submerged in pails or shallow 
tubs of water. I found the latter method the best. The soil 
used should be clayey loam, mixed with old, well-rotted manure 
or vegetable mould in equal parts. When about six inches high 
the young plants should be re-potted, and potted on as growth 
proceeds. Wooden lard-pails I found very useful for placing 
9-inch pots in. When in pots of this size, the water may be 
allowed gradually to get lower and lower in the pail ; and my 
plants in 12-inch pots were stood in a trench without any water 
in it ; they then threw out aerial roots from just above soil level. 
Drainage was carefully attended to, and water given daily, with 
now and then a little weak liquid pig manure. Seed may be 
obtained in bulk, at 25 cents per lb., I believe, from Thorburn, 
Seedsman, 26, Cortlandt Street, New York ; or from Mr. Chas. 
Gilmour, Port Hope, Ontario. 
