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PONDS AND LAKES. 



America, a yellow lotus with excellent foliage, which is 

 found in one or two places in New Jersey, but which 

 chiefly abounds in Florida and other Southern and Western 

 States. The leaves of this species are quite as noteworthy 

 as those of the familiar NelumUum speciosum. These are 

 often two feet in diameter. 



A GROUP OF JAPANESE LOTUSES. 

 (NELUMBIUM SPECIOSUM.) 



The lotus leaves and flowers are decorative and striking 

 in effect, but the true water-lilies, the NympJiceas, are, after 

 all, I am inclined to say, the best ornamental water-plants. 

 Following out my Lombard}' poplar idea of emphasis, I 



