A'. Marliacea, var. rosea, one of two red French hybrid water-hlies. Both are 

 rank-growing plants, often raising both leaves and flowers above the water 



Nymphcpa aiha, v^T. candidissima, thehest oi all the water-lilies for deep 

 ponds. One of the early bloomers, and it flowers from June to frost 



Plate XV.— SOME OF THE BEST HARDY KIXDS-II 



