THE WATER-GARDEN Q77 
larger Water-Lilies are of the most weedlike vigour. 
Plant them in a hamper filled with clay and manure ; 
drop them into a still pool; cut away the trees so that 
they may have full sun; and then they will grow like 
rhubarb, and flower like French Marguerites. 
Of the yellow Water-Lilies—I am talking of Nym- 
phaea, of course, not of the common vulgar Brandy- 
Bottle, and its brother, Nuphar Advena, from America, 
whose upstanding foliage is very handsome, though its 
dull yellow globes are no better than those of lutewm— 
the panhypersebastos is marliacea Chromatella, magnificent 
in its wealth of immense foliage, bronze green and violet, 
doubly and trebly magnificent in its huge sulphur flowers, 
generous in build, ample in breadth and texture of petal. 
Flava is half-hardy, dutea is smaller ; no yellow—hardly 
any other Nymph, approaches gigantic, splendid Chroma- 
tella. The nearest approach is the similar colossea, largest 
of all the race, with great blossoms of soft pale pink. 
The American hybrid, too, William Doogue, has the 
same ample splendour, and a deeper shade of flesh. 
The other rosy Water-Lilies are inferior, though 
pretty. Their tendency is to run towards thinness of 
petal and starriness of outline. Also they are almost all 
of frailer, smaller growth, adapted to shallower water. 
Thus are the Laydekeri lilies, purpurea and lilacea; 
the Carolinianas, rosea and perfecta; odorata and odor- 
ata carnea, and rare blushing sphaerocarpa from the far 
North. Either a sport or a seedling of sphaerocarpa is 
bright frail /roebelii, weak in growth, small in bloom, 
but of a rich carmine crimson. ‘This is a delicate little 
treasure,—the only Water-Lily that is,—and should have 
less depth of water and a choice place. Some of the 
hybrids, too, have the starry thin form I cavil at in the 
smaller pink lilies ; it mars the effectiveness of Se-gnour- 
etti, ignea, flammea, Robinsoniana, lucida—lovely, subtly- 
