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NYMPH^EA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



NYMPII.*:A. 



by M. Latour-Marliac. It is a seedling 

 of this species, and has pale, straw- 

 coloured flowers ; the leaves of somewhat 

 oblong shape, marked with brown above, 

 and spotted with red underneath. 



N. sphaerocarpa (Caspary's Lily}. This 

 is thought by some a distinct species, and 

 others make it a variety of N. alba. It 

 begins to flower earlier, and with the water 

 at a lower temperature, than any other \ 

 kind ; its flowers in shape like those of N. 

 alba, but rosy-carmine in colour, blooming 

 flush of flowers in May and June, but not 

 blooming late in summer. 



enough for these natives of Florida and 

 Mexico. 



M. MARLIAC'S HYBRIDS. These are the 

 gems of the Water-lily family, and there 

 are many of them of the highest beauty, 

 while they are very hardy. 



N. M. albida is finer than any other 

 white-flowered Nymphaea ; vigorous ; the 

 leaves bright purple-red when young, 

 lustrous green as they get older ; the 

 flowers fully 7 in. across, rich yellow in the 

 centre, the outer petals very long, broad, 

 but gradually shorten towards the centre. 



N. M. carnea and N. M. rosea are 



Bud of hybrid Water-lily, N. Marliacea carnea (natural size), gathered from open water at Gravetye, 

 Sussex, at the end of October. 



similar to the preceding kind, but distinct 

 in colour, the first-named kind having 

 flowers suffused with pale flesh tint, and 

 in the other the colour deepens into rosy- 

 pink. 



The Canary Water-lily (N. M. chro- 

 matella) is one of the finest of the hybrids ; 

 the leaves, at first purplish-red, change to 

 deep red, with distinct and beautiful dark 

 brown-red markings, whilst the flowers 

 are large, soft yellow in colour, with deeper 

 centre. 



N. M. rubra punctata is a shapely flower, 



N. flava (Primrose lVate 

 of having a thick rhizome, this has a mass 

 of fibrous roots, and in addition it sends 

 out long runner-like shoots after the 

 manner of a Strawberry, and these form 

 young plants. The flowers are canary- 

 yellow. N. Mexicana is apparently botani- 

 cally the same as N. flava, but Mr. J. N. 

 Gerard, of Elizabeth, N.J., says " it is a 

 charming thing and a fine doer, having a 

 cone-like tuber from which runners start 

 out from thong-like shoots and then 

 flower." We fear our climate is not warm 



