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distinct acquisition. It is also one of the earliest to go to rest 
in the autumn, having disappeared beneath the water whilst some 
of the hybrids are still flowering. 
N. tuberosa .—This Lily with me has developed remarkably 
during the past few years, and is now a very vigorous example. 
The foliage and habit are more robust than even in N. alba ; whilst 
the flowers, which are quite as pure in colour, are oftentimes as 
much as 8 inches across. It takes its specific name from the 
tubers produced upon the stems, and may thus be easily 
distinguished when fully developed. It comes from the North- 
Eastern States of North America, and hence is absolutely 
hardy. 
N. pygmcea is pure white in colour, like N. alba, being quite 
distinct in habit, with cup-shaped blossoms. It is of medium 
growth, hence well adapted for limited situations. N. pygmcea 
comes from Northern Asia. 
N. odorata minor is a smaller form of the type, coming from 
North America also, but this has not so far flowered freely with 
me. It is of slow growth. 
N. odorata, from North America, is also pure white and sweet- 
scented. Another characteristic is its multiplicity of petals, 
which are long, pointed, and narrow. 
N. odorata rubra (the Cape Cod Water-lily), known as 
N. o. rosea by the Americans, has its petals suffused with pale 
reddish pink, deeper at the base. Like the type it is of quite 
moderate growth. 
These are the species and their forms as grown at Gunners- 
bury. The following are all hybrids, for which we are indebted 
to M. Latour-Marliac, who for years has greatly interested him¬ 
self in this branch of horticulture, viz.— 
N. Marliacea albida, the grandest white variety of which, I 
think, there is any record. I have cut flowers of it fully 9 inches 
across, but even this size has been exceeded. The colour is of 
the purest white (more so than in N. alba) ; the blossoms as they 
glisten in the sunshine are visible at a long distance off. The 
foliage, too, is of extra size with a bronzy suffusion. 
N. Marliacea chromatella is almost a counterpart of the fore¬ 
going, being not quite so large in the flower or so robust in 
growth. The colour is a soft primrose, or chrome-yellow, 
fading with age. Like the preceding, it is very profuse in 
