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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
adopting improvements which are impracticable when the work 
is completed. 
I may possibly, Mr. Editor, be anticipating your calendar of 
operations, but there I know you are necessarily brief, which 
may perhaps afford room for and serve as an apology for my 
hints. I shall now conclude with one that you have hitherto 
forgotten to give us. Any one in possession of a promise from 
a friend of “ a few cuttings” should take an early opportunity 
to make an accidental call, or that uncompromising no-getting- 
over-able bar to the wished-for accessions, “ you are too late,” 
will ring in remembrance with wicked malevolence throughout 
the entire season. 
Hortulanus. 
Horticultural Essays, 
By the Members of the Regent’s Park Gardeners' Society. 
ON THE CULTURE OF AQUATIC PLANTS. 
By Mr. Thomas Davis. 
The aquatic plants of the Eastern hemisphere from their ele¬ 
gance and beauty rank as objects of no mean interest in the 
catalogue of vegetable forms : some of them are allied by their 
similarity of structure to the Algae, as Zostera and Aponogelon 
in the natural order Fluviales , which may be mistaken for sub¬ 
jects in that inferior class of vegetable organisation ; while on 
the other hand the noble tribe of Nymphaeae stands unrivalled for 
the beauty of the several species of which it is composed. The 
beautiful blue of Byblis linifolia —the rich tinted brown of 
Vallisneria spiralis — the delicate pink of Nelumbium specicsum 
— and the highly fragrant perfume of Aponogeton distachyon — 
have each and all a deep and peculiar interest among other 
objects which occupy the wide domain of nature. 
The different species of aquatic plants belong to no particular 
order of the vegetable system, but are dispersed through the 
principal divisions of the natural arrangement. They are indi¬ 
genous to most parts of the knowrn world ; but the British 
