. 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. 74. Willow Moss cfontinalis antipyretica). Fig. 75. Cbysatlwort (ElCCIA FLUITANS). Besides the water-plants thus briefly described in this chapter, there are of course others which would also be both useful and ornamental in aquaria; but enough has been said, I hope, to give the novice in aquarium matters am idea of what kinds of plants to look for, where they may be .fo
. 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. 74. Willow Moss cfontinalis antipyretica). Fig. 75. Cbysatlwort (ElCCIA FLUITANS). Besides the water-plants thus briefly described in this chapter, there are of course others which would also be both useful and ornamental in aquaria; but enough has been said, I hope, to give the novice in aquarium matters am idea of what kinds of plants to look for, where they may be .found, and how they may be intro- duced into his tanks.*. Fig. 76. Crystalwori (Riccia natans). * At the time this article appeared in The Bazaar the Editor of that paper appended the following note : "At Green's Conservatory, Covent Garden, we saw the other day a small Water Sela^nella, which was very pretty. It was exactly like fragments of a small variety of Selaginella or Club Moss, and grew freely on the surface of the water, like ; I have tried this plant, and cannot speak favourably of 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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