TENDER DAY BLOOMING WATER-LILIES ICQ 



A well-grown plant has dark-green leaves, 

 mottled with brown, eighteen to twenty-four 

 inches across, with deeply wavy margins, 

 and the under side a dull purplish blue. 



It will accommodate itself to a great 

 variety of circumstances. It will flower 

 even in a 6-inch pot, sunk in a tub of water, 

 but the blooms will be only three inches 

 across, and the leaves small in proportion. 

 The more room, the more and the larger 

 the flowers and leaves will be. With a 

 3-foot tub for the roots and ten feet square 

 of water surface, you can get the maximum 

 results. 



A new flower comes up every two or three 

 days, so you always have one, often two or 

 three blooms from a single root. It blossoms 

 from the middle of July until kiUing frosts 

 arrive. 



PALE BLUE AND RED ZANZIBARS 



There are two forms and several hybrids 

 of the Zanzibar water-lily, all of which 



