OE, THE HOME-CULTUEE OF FEESH-WATEE PLANTS. 
To this list must he added the species of native 
Water Lilies, where space admits :— 
Nymphm alia . . 
Nuphar luted . . . 
Nuphar pumila . . 
Villarsia nymphceoides 
The White Water Lily (Plate 
II., No. 1). 
The Yellow Water Lily (Plate 
II., No. 2). 
The small Yellow Water Lily 
(Plate II., No. 3). 
The Lily-like Villarsia. 
When there is sufficient space and a certain de¬ 
gree of warmth, foreign species of the Water Lily 
tribe may he added, as the beautiful Nymphcea 
ccerulea , one or two of the Vuryali tribe, and 
even the giant Victoria regia; hut as one leaf 
alone of this Titanic example of water vegetation 
would cover the space of half a dozen drawing¬ 
room Aquaria, it is in ordinary cases out of the 
question. The ingeniously persevering processes of 
Chinese gardeners might, indeed, he able to reduce 
the scale of this stately queen of the waters of the 
Amazon to such a scale as would enable them to 
grow it in one of their own quaintly painted minia¬ 
ture tea-saucers; but we have not, as yet, at¬ 
tained to much skill in this kind of “ gardening in 
small.” 
To these plants may he added some of the 
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