Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed, 1804 - In Which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants, Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, Are Accurately Represented in Their Natural Colours #265596

Found by thunblrg in the interior of the Cape country in Hottentot's Holland, in a wood not far from sea-cow River, near a. Houfe called koch's-farm. Cultivated by miller in 1758, who received the feeds from the'cap'e, under the title of White vvater-lily; it is Of the calielt culture, and will grow many years together (withom parting or removing) in the fame pot; requires plenty of water; blooms feveral weeks in fuccellion during the Summer months; ro duces feed in abundance; owing to which and its long Ranging in the country it is now one of the commonell of its tribe in our colleélions; has no line.