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richest shades of colour, have been endowed by their female 
progenitors with a very hardy constitution; and these new 
comers, which often surpass in grace and beauty their most 
famous relatives from the torrid zone, have also the advantage of 
being day-flowering. 
The number of hybrids which I have succeeded in raising at 
Temple-sur-Lot, where the cultivation of aquatic plants forms an 
important speciality, amounts exactly to thirty-four quite distinct 
varieties. The following are the names of those which are 
already known in the horticultural world: they are twenty-seven 
in number. The seven others are still unnamed, and have not 
yet been sent out; but before long they also will put in an 
appearance. 
Andreana.—Flowers brick-red, shaded with yellow ochre; 
cup-shaped on a very straight stem, projecting 5 to 6 
inches from the water; stamens rich orange; leaves spotted 
with chestnut-colour on the stalk and streaked with red-brown 
on the back. 
Aurora.—One of the most remarkable varieties ; ground-work of 
clear yellow, shaded with faint red the first day of flowering, 
with orange-red the second, and with intense red the third ; 
stamens orange-red ; leaves dark olive streaked with red-brown 
on the back. 
Caroliniana nivea.—Flowers pure white, symmetrical, very large 
and double, with an exquisite scent; stamens rich yellow. 
Caroliniana perfecta.—Flowers salmon-red, very double ; petals 
obtuse and perfectly regular; stamens rich yellow. 
Ellisiana.—Flowers bright currant-red. The fiery orange colour 
of the stamens has a very fine effect. 
Fulva.—Flowers a very clear yellow shaded with red, which 
becomes brighter every day; petals incurved; stamens 
orange-red. 
Gloriosa.—One of the triumphs of hybridisation. A grand 
floating scented flower, 7 inches in diameter, very double, and 
of perfect form ; currant-red, washed with rose-white at the 
tips of the lower petals ; stamens rich red. This is the only 
Water-lily which has regularly five sepals. 
Laydekeri fulgens.—Another variety of the very first order. 
Flowers rich amaranth ; stamens fire-red. 
