l6o WATER-LILIES 



and the plants reset. In autumn each rhi- 

 zome produces one or more long tubers, much 

 the shape and size of a banana. These are 

 the parts to transplant. They are moved in 

 the spring when they are starting to grow, say 

 about the first of May. Some of the Japanese 

 lotuses are less hardy than others, but none 

 stand the winters as well as the pure species 

 N. lutea and N. nucifera. 



THE STATELIEST AQUATIC " GRASS " 



It is no wonder that the plant from which 

 the ancients made their papyrus figured so 

 prominently in Egyptian art, for it is probably 

 the stateliest "grass" in the world. (It is 

 really a sedge.) This Egyptian paper plant 

 (Cyperus Papyrus') is known to dealers in 

 greenhouse plants as Papyrus antiquorum. 



It grows with its roots just submerged, 

 and sends up stalks four to six feet high, 

 with a tuft of fine grass-like leaves a foot 

 long at the top of each stalk. It is Hke a 

 huge umbrella-plant with extremely fine 



