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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GABDEN PLANTS nymph^a 



finest and largest white Water-Lily, the 

 flowers being fragrant and freely pro- 

 duced. 



N. M. carnea is very vigorous and 

 free-flowering, with magnificent flowers, 

 flesh-tinted with a delicate blush, and 

 scented like vanilla. 



N. M. ohromatella is a charming 

 hybrid, with brown mottled leaves when 

 young, and large fragrant flowers of clear 

 yellow, produced from early spring till 

 late autumn. 



N. M. flammea, a splendid variety 

 with white and reddish-purple flowers, 

 the outer petals pink, deepening in colour 

 towards the centre. 



N. M. ignea has flowers about 5 in. 

 across, with pale olive-green sepals edged 

 with rose behind, and pale rose almost 

 white in front, the closely imbricating 

 petals being of a deep bright rosy-crimson 

 surrounding the vivid orange-red stamens. 



N. M. rosea is the choicest of the 

 hardy pink Water-Lilies, with large cup- 

 shaped flowers of an excLuisite soft rose 

 tint much deeper than the variety ca/rnea. 



N. M. ruhro-punctata has flowers 4 

 in. across, with dark oUve-green sepals, 

 flushed with rosy-lilac in front, and deep 

 mauve-purple petals delicately dotted 

 with carmine. 



The Laydekeri group contains : — 



N. L. fulgens, a charming variety with 

 dark green outer sepals and crimson- 

 magenta petals. 



N. L. fuVva has creamy yellow 

 flowers tinted and lined i with bright 

 red, the stamens being golden-yeUow, 

 and the leaves blotched with brown 

 above and spotted with red beneath. 



N. L. lilacea has lilac-rose flowers 

 scented like Tea Boses, and about 2J in. 

 across. 



N. L. lucida has large soft vermilion 

 flowers, with orange stamens, and large 

 chestnut-spotted leaves. 



N. L. purjav/rata has symmetrical 



flowers of a deep rosy-crimson and vivid 

 orange-red stamens. 



N. L. rosea, flowers medium-sized, 

 tender pink to carmine. Stamens orange- 

 red. 



Other varieties are : Av/rora, may be 

 called the Chameleon Water-Lily, as its 

 exquisite flowers change in colour fi-om 

 day to day, being at first rose-yeUow, 

 then orange-red, ultimately beco m ing 

 deep red. 



N. Blanda is the purest white, with 

 flowers 4^6 in. across, vigorous and free- 

 flowering. 



N. ElUsiama is a choice variety with 

 brilliant carmine-purple flowers. 



N. Bohvnsoni is a fine hybrid with 

 deep rose-coloured flowers, deeper towards 

 the centre, dotted with white, and with 

 orange-red stamens. 



N. Signometi is a superb variety with 

 delicate creamy yellow flowers tinted with 

 pale rose and carmine. 



N. Andreana. — Flowers 5-6 in. above 

 the water, brick-red, shaded with yeUow 

 ochre ; stamens orange, leaf stalks spotted 

 with chestnut, and streaked with red- 

 brown on the back. 



N. gloriosa. — A lovely scented flower 

 7 in. across, very double, bright red, rosy- 

 white at the tips of the lower petals. 

 Stamens rich red. 



N. caroKniana nwea. — Flowers pure 

 white, very large and double, very 

 fragrant. Stamens rich yellow. N. c. 

 perfecta has salmon-red flowers, very 

 double ; petals blunt and perfectly regular. 



N. sanguinea. — Flowers rich carmine- 

 amaranth or clear carmine. Stamens 

 orange-red. 



As the Hardy Water-Lilies have come 

 into prominence only during the past 

 few years, there is every reason to believe 

 and hope that many fine varieties are still 

 to be raised. Although all the above are 

 really fine forms they are likely to be super- 

 seded by others still finer in due course. 



VIII. SARRACEN I ACEiE— Trumpet Leaf Order 



A small natural order of remarkable and cm-ious-looking perennial herbaceous 

 plants, having tufts of radical leaves which are tubular or pitcher-like in form, 

 and surmounted by a lid. The tubular portion corresponds to the stalk of 

 ordinary leaves, but is more or less highly coloured, veined, and netted. The 

 lid-like portion corresponds to the blade of an ordinary leaf, and is usually 

 very beautifully coloured and netted, while on the inner surface are numerous 



