. Water-lilies and how to grow them, with chapters on the proper making of ponds and the use of accessory plants. S .S •o e H 2; PL, wO wm Q 2;o PS o H u iS^ 2 PM H> GROWING THE GIANT VICTORIAS I43 One, Victoria regia, is a native of the moretropical portion of South America, beingfound principally in the Amazon other, Victoria Cruziana, (the V. Trickeriof the trade) occurs in the Rio Parana andits tributaries. This latter situation beingcomparatively cool, V. Cruziana has shownitself far better adapted to outdoor culturethan the V. regia. Besides this physiologicaldiflFerence th
. Water-lilies and how to grow them, with chapters on the proper making of ponds and the use of accessory plants. S .S •o e H 2; PL, wO wm Q 2;o PS o H u iS^ 2 PM H> GROWING THE GIANT VICTORIAS I43 One, Victoria regia, is a native of the moretropical portion of South America, beingfound principally in the Amazon other, Victoria Cruziana, (the V. Trickeriof the trade) occurs in the Rio Parana andits tributaries. This latter situation beingcomparatively cool, V. Cruziana has shownitself far better adapted to outdoor culturethan the V. regia. Besides this physiologicaldiflFerence there are a number of morpholog-ical distinctions. Older plants of the twospecies may be most readily distinguishedby the sepals, which in the regia are spinyalmost, or quite, to the tip, while the sepalsof Cruziana are smooth, except at the differences are shown in the leafcolouring. In the earlier stages, the upper surface ofthe young leaves of the Cruziana appearsbright green and seems to be divided by anetwork of depressed reddish-coloured veinsinto a more or less concentric arrangement ofqu
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