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AQUATIC PLANTS. 
Aponogeton distachyon , recommended as an aquatic (page 149), is one 
of the most desirable for that purpose; and although usually considered a 
greenhouse aquatic, will be found to be perfectly hardy, and to continue 
frequently to produce flowers even in the middle of winter, when the 
season is mild. The flowers are also remarkably sweet, their fragrance 
much resembling that of the Hawthorn. On this account, the plants 
should be placed near the margin of the pool, for convenience of gathering ; 
and they may be kept several days in a room by placing them in water. 
To flower the plants well, they should be planted in the soil of the basin 
at twelve to eighteen inches of depth of water.' Calla cetliiopica will 
seldom suffer in ordinary winters, if placed in the same depth of water; 
as, although the leaves are destroyed, the frost never reaches the roots. 
QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
Madam,— I am a reader of your nice little work, the Ladies’ Magazine 
of Gardening, and as I am anxious to raise some Heaths by seed, I should 
be obliged to you to let me know, through the medium of the above-named 
work, whether what appear to be the anthers of the stamens when the 
flowers are withered, are the seeds: and if so, whether they should be sown 
in peat and sand, and at what season of the year ? But should seed not 
be the best mode of increasing this beautiful tribe of plants, perhaps you 
will inform me whether you think that I should have better success with 
cuttings, and kindly give me some directions for the work. E. H. 
It is evident that the flowers of my correspondent must have withered 
without producing seed. She had better purchase some seed of a re¬ 
spectable nurseryman ; and then treat it as directed in the following paper 
on the cultivation of Heaths, The paper appeared about fifteen years ago 
in the Gardener’s Magazine, but it is so good, that I think it well worth 
reprinting. 
“ The most general (and I consider the best) time that large collections 
of seeds of the Cape Ericse arrive in this country, are the months of July 
and August: from the beginning of the former to the end of the latter 
month, or perhaps later, is a favourable time for sowing them; they should 
not be sown thick, for if the seeds are good, they are weakened by being 
close, and liable to injury by thinning them out in the seed-pots. Seeds 
of Ericae I have known to vegetate well after being twelve years in this 
