THE HARDY WATER-LILIES 97 



has been grown with tolerable success in 

 northern New York and in Massachusetts, 

 but is not to be recommended. N. sanguinea 

 has flowers of rosy, purple-spotted carmine; 

 Laydekeri purpurata is rosy crimson with 

 orange-red stamens; ^m. Falconer, bright 

 garnet and as much as seven inches across, 

 perhaps the most gorgeous of the lot; 

 James Gurney, smaller and dark rose, and 

 James Br y don are among the best known 

 of these. 



RED AND YELLOW BLENDS 



A distinct and beautiful series of varieties 

 in which red and yellow are blended has been 

 produced by combining the Swedish water- 

 lily with our native yellow water-lily {N. 

 Mexicana). The efi^ect of the deep red in 

 the centre of the flower with pale yellow on 

 the outer petals is extremely striking. The 

 brown blotching of the leaves which is seen 

 in most of these red-yellow water-hlies is 

 inherited from the American parent. For 



