. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. VICTORIA VICTORIA 1929 tliestyk's: t'urpels ;>0-40; sti^niii forming a broad, ba- :^in-like depression. 2-2'-,j in. ^vide, in the midst of tlio flower, with a central conical continuation of the floral axis, the basin filled with fluid on the flrst evening of opening: carpellary styles broad and fleshy in th
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. VICTORIA VICTORIA 1929 tliestyk's: t'urpels ;>0-40; sti^niii forming a broad, ba- :^in-like depression. 2-2'-,j in. ^vide, in the midst of tlio flower, with a central conical continuation of the floral axis, the basin filled with fluid on the flrst evening of opening: carpellary styles broad and fleshy in the lower part, produced upward to a fleshy, subulate, incurved process about ^2 in- long. lu fruit all of the floral Ivs. have decayed away, leaving the basal tube of the torus at the top of a great prickly berry, half the size of one's head. The seeds are greenish or brownish black, about the size of a pea. The genus is represented by 2 well- detined species, inhabiting still waters of South Amer- ica from British Guiana to Argentina. In its native haunts Victoria grows in 4-0 ft. of water. sjiite of the cui>-like f'TUi of the leaves, water from rain or other sovirces does not remain on the surfaee ; it douI)tless runs down at once tbrougii Ibe tiny perfora- tions. This would l)e an indis])ensable protection to the leaf against fungous foes and in the luncti<.in of assimi- lation. A single h-'af, its buoyancy, may sustain a weight of ITiO or 200 jxiuniis. Not the Jeast remarkable feature of these b/aves is tbi'ir rate of growth, (.'aspary found ihemaxinuini growth in length to be about 1 inch per hour wlien the leaf is just expanding; the surface in- creases 4 or 5 sq. ft. in 24 hours, and a plant will pro duce in 21 to 2r. weeks 000 or 700 sq. ft. of leaf-surface. A great devLdopnient of heat has been observed in the. 2668 V ctor a reg a the g ant ___ — Water lily of the Amazon m great 1 atches mile m ext 1 t n 1 i re 1 Tl tuberous rhizome stands erect in the mud,
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