John Sims 
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed, 1804 [PDF ebook] 
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

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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 colleelions; has no line.