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are good pink ones. While these flower during the day there are 

 ten or twelve night-blooming ones, among them, N. dentata superba, 

 perhaps the largest white Nymphaea grown ; N. rubra rosea, almost 

 red; N. Geo. Huster, crimson, and N. kewensis, a light pink. For 

 the permanent Lily pond the Egyptian Lotus (Nelumbium speciosum), 

 with its yellow flowers, is beautiful. 



For pond or pool, if you want a little more variety, fill a few 

 bulb pans with the variegated Iris, or rather Sweet Flag (Acorus 

 japonica variegata). This plant, with its green and white leaves, is 

 always beautiful, hardy, and will do nicely in pots if you cannot 

 plant it out; the same is true of the Umbrella Plant (Cyperus 

 alternifolius) where you cannot use to advantage the taller and 

 heavier growing sort, Cyperus Papyrus. For the shallow pool 

 described above, by all means plant a few Water Poppies (Limno- 

 charis Humboldtii) and a few Water Hyacinths (Eichhornia crassipes 

 major). There are many other desirable plants, not alone those 

 grown in the water, but such as might be planted to great ad- 

 vantage along the edge of a pool. There is no better place than 

 that for the Japanese and German Irises, Pennisetum, Arundo, 

 Myosotis, Ranunculus, Monarda and Eulalia. For those not 

 acquainted with aquatics or the construction of a water garden, 

 it won't be much of a job to find out all about it and then get busy. 

 Get your customers started. A pool with water plants in it needs 

 so little attention during the Summer months, and the day- and 

 night-blooming Nymphaeas make such a beautiful display and at 

 the same time one so different from the Geranium or Salvia bed, 

 that you will seldom find anybody disappointed. 



You may make some mistakes that happens even to those 

 who have been at it for many years. But as you go on you will 

 find that there are so many different ways of creating good effects 

 that no two pools you lay out need be alike. 



BASKET AND WINDOW BOX PLANTS 



If there has been a decline in the demand for so-called bedding plants, 

 this has been made up many times over in the ever-increasing call for 

 the filling of window and porch boxes, hanging baskets and vases. 

 The average retail grower can do much to make this feature of his 

 work still more popular as well as more profitable. 



older the residence section of a city or town, the less use 

 our customers living there have for bedding stock, and for this 

 reason: When they started to build there was usually a lack of 

 shade and they planted trees and shrubs for immediate effect. 

 This meant that in a few years the trees became so dense that there 

 was no longer any chance for the flower beds in the lawn to do 

 well and finally they were done away with. This, to an extent, 



