FLORAL CHAMELEONS
"Visitors to Kew Gardens recently were afforded the somewhat rare opportunity of seeing a bloom of the famous ,Victoria Eegina Illy, the queen of water-plants, blossom forth in all its glory (says the "Daily Chronicle"). For three hours the flower was a beautiful snow-white, thon, after closing for a short while, this floral chameleon opened out again, but now it was a magnificent red, which gradually deepened to crimson as it drooped and died. The plant is a native of South America, where it grows in great profusion in the upper reaches of the Amazon. The lilies at Kew are grown each year from Beeds about an inch long, which are planted in February. This year nearly a dozen gigantic leaves have been cultivated, the iargest of which measured no less than 64ft across. The average suburban front garden would therefore be amply stocked by growing a single plant.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1929, Page 9
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151FLORAL CHAMELEONS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1929, Page 9
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