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growing luxuriantly and sending forth many blos- 

 soms give witness that our climate is certainly suit- 

 able to the cultivation of the tenderest of aquatic 

 plants. Before selection for color, etc., it is best to 

 send for the catalogue of a dealer in aquatics. 



HARDY WATER LILIES 



Nympheas : Aurora, candidissima, Gladstoniana, 

 gloriosa, lucida, Marliacea carnea, M. chromatella, 

 M. Robinsoni, M. rosea, odorata Caroliniana, pyg- 

 maea and pygmaea helvola. 



TROPICAL DAY-BLOOMING 



Nymphea Pennsylvania, Zanzibarensis, Z. azurea, 

 and Z. rosea. 



TROPICAL NIGHT-BLOOMING 



Nymphea dentata grandiflora, dentata superba, 

 Devoniensis, and George Huster. 



Old plants of tropical lilies often succumb to the 

 chill of water during winter. Small nut-like tubers 

 produced by keeping seedling plants in four-inch 

 pots during summer, are more hardy and responsive 

 than old crowns that have flowered. 



FINE CALIFORNIA HYBRIDS 



Several years ago a new series of hybrids ap- 

 peared in a commercial water garden in Los An- 

 geles, produced by the crossing of N. gracilis with 

 N. Zanzibarensis and its varieties. They are strong 

 and vigorous growers, producing very freely flowers 

 much larger than N. gracilis, being eight to ten 

 inches across, on stems standing fifteen inches or 

 more out of the water. They increase freely by 

 offsets, producing large tubers which are perfectly 

 hardy in the citrus belts of California. The flowers 

 are very useful for cutting as they can be placed in 



