. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. Fig. 67. Fruit op Trapa natans. chestnut, hence the common name. This plant can often be bought in London for a moderate sum: but perhaps the seed might be obtained more readily. The Water Awlwort {Subw- laria aquatica) (Fig. 68) has been strongly recommended as a plant suitable for an aquarium, but I have never been fortunate enough to obtain a specimen. It is only, as a rul
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. Fig. 67. Fruit op Trapa natans. chestnut, hence the common name. This plant can often be bought in London for a moderate sum: but perhaps the seed might be obtained more readily. The Water Awlwort {Subw- laria aquatica) (Fig. 68) has been strongly recommended as a plant suitable for an aquarium, but I have never been fortunate enough to obtain a specimen. It is only, as a rule, found in mountain lakes. The leaves, awl-like in shape, grow from the root, which is composed of long white fibres. The flowers are small, and sometimes are borne under water. Though almost everyone knows the duckweed when he sees it, yet very few, comparatively, know what an interesting plant it really is. Four species of duckweed are found in Great Britain, and all are useful and pleasing in the aquarium, for they keep the water shaded at the surface, they form hiding-places for the smallest animals, they are introduced without trouble, they grow well, and their presence has a pleasing efPect. Only a few plants should be placed in a tank at a time, as they multiply rapidly. They increase by ofEshoots at the edges of the fronds. The duckweeds are the smallest of all flowering plants, but they blossom very rarely—^the Greater Duckweeds. Fio. 58. Water Awlwort (SUBDLARIA AQUATICA).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bateman, Gregory Climenson. London, L. U. Gill
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