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Title: The aquarium
Identifier: aquarium3251892mule (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Mulertt, Hugo
Subjects: Aquarium animals; Aquarium fishes; Aquariums
Publisher: Brooklyn, N. Y. : H. Mulertt
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8 THE AQUARIUM, OCTOBER, 1892. The Kqukriutvi. A QCJARTBRLY MAGAZINE. 50 cts. a Year. Single Copies, 15 cts. Eacli. Sample Copies Free. Advertising Eates on Application. HUGO MULERTT, Publisher, 173 Nostrand Av., Brooklyn, N. Y. varieties. They grew side by side and received the same treatment, but each developed its respective characteristics. The Louisiana variety in the more regular shape of the fan-shaped leaves and a brilliant, glossy, light green color on the uj)per surface, while the under surface was covered with a silvery lus- tre ; the Florida variety showed the same habit of growth, but the stems and leaves were in the different tints of
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Ranunculus Aquatilis. At last we received an assorted lot of water plants from Florida, among which were some Cabombas, but not of that brilliant green color which dis- tinguished our Oabomba from all other water plants. The color of this Florida lot was rather dull, being a kind of brownish green. But this, we pre- sumed, could have been caused by a dif- ference in locality or quality of soil and water, and believed it to be the same variety. For the sake of acclimating these plants we planted them in several of our shallow open-air ponds and here we discovered that we had two distinct carmine ; the new leaves as they ap- peared being of salmon color, deepen- ing as they became stronger to a brilli- ant pink, then a dark carmine until they were of a brownish violet when oldest. The leaves sit opposite each other, they are cut in a systematical manner into a great many fine shreds, which altogether spread in such a way as to form a regular little open fan. The flowers of both varieties are alike. They are of a trumpet shape, some- what similar to a single Geranium flower, silvery white with a yellow cen- tre, six petaled, and are half an inch in

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