. Water-lilies and how to grow them, with chapters on the proper making of ponds and the use of accessory plants. to the other extreme of colour—for colour is our chief means of classifyingthese kinds — we have several pure chief of these goes by the name of Nym-phcBa dentata. The petals of dentata areabout three and a half times as long as theyare wide. In a fully open flower they standout in a ring or disc exactly at right angles tothe petiole. In the middle of the flower thelight yellow stamens stand erect. The wholeeffect is rather curious and a little stiff. Itmight be likened
. Water-lilies and how to grow them, with chapters on the proper making of ponds and the use of accessory plants. to the other extreme of colour—for colour is our chief means of classifyingthese kinds — we have several pure chief of these goes by the name of Nym-phcBa dentata. The petals of dentata areabout three and a half times as long as theyare wide. In a fully open flower they standout in a ring or disc exactly at right angles tothe petiole. In the middle of the flower thelight yellow stamens stand erect. The wholeeffect is rather curious and a little stiff. Itmight be likened to a short, stout candlestanding in the middle of a white leaves are bright green. As varieties of this there are three formsoffered, undoubtedly improvements in sizeand profusion of flowers: NymphcBa dentata,var. grandiflora, described as having petalstwice as wide as the old form. N. dentata,var. superba has more numerous petals thanthe originial, and N. dentata, var. magnifica,a larger flower. The old dentata only reacheseight or ten inches across. Distinguished from dentata by the shape of. Plate XX.—THE FLOWER-BUD OF A VICTORIA This one (f. Cruziana) differs from in being less spinyon the sepals. At the time of opening a delicious fragrance,like pineapples, pervades the air
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