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Title: Cassell's popular gardening
Identifier: cassellspopularg00fish_0 (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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AQ.UATIC PLANTS. blotch at the base of each petal. They have been compared to some species of Culochortus. It has developed verj^ finely, producing- a profusion of flowers, in one of the mud beds in which the ^N'elumbiums are grown at Kew. It is raised easily from seeds. Native of South America. Alismacccc. Salvinia natans.—This is an extremely pretty and interesting small aquatic, which floats on the wutei', ovate in shape, and provided with a swollen stalk. The flowers are inconspicuous. It produces curiously horned fruits, which are supposed to resemble the Caltrops of ancient warfare. They are the Jesuit's Nuts of Venice, and are called " Chataigne d'Eau" by the French. This and other species are used for food, the nuts being ground into flour. In cultiva- tion, good seeds are not produced, and they require to be imported in damp moss. It may be grown in a
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The Lattice Plant (Ouvirandra fenpstralis). and can be grown in any small vessel with mud in the bottom. The leaves are oval, bright green, thickly set on the upper surface with warts and bristles. There are numerous pill-like fruits on the dissected leaves below the rhizome ; there are no true roots, but these leaves resemble them, and serve the same purpose. The plant is annual, and the mud over which it grows must be preserved, as it contains the spores which produce a new crop the next season. It is figured in the Gardeners^ Chronicle, vol. xv., N.S., p. 466. Native of the South of Europe. Marsileaceee. Trapa natans (the Water-caltrops).—An interesting annual with pretty rosettes of toothed leaves, broadly- tub with soil in the bottom, and in warm water out of doors it grows well. The species above mentioned is European. Others, as the twb-hqmed T. bicornis, the " Ling" of the Chinese, might be introduced. Il- lustrated in The Garden, vol. xxiv., p. 557. Ona- grariece. Trianca = Limnohlnm. VaUlsneria spiralis.—This is specially suited foi smaU aquaria. It has long narroAv grass-like leaves, and is interesting by the curious manner of its fertilisation, and by its convenient^ showing inter- cellular circulation under the microscope. It must be submerged, and it grows with great facilitj', but the male plant appears more delicate than the

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