Excerpt from The Gardeners' Monthly and Horticulturist, 1886, Vol. 28: Devoted to Horticulture, Arboriculture and Rural Affairs As an experiment, Mr. 8. Had immersed some six or seven nice plants of this curious genus, in one of the large tanks in the open air, and which, to all appearance, were doing as well as those sub merged ih a tank under glass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.