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- NELUMBIUMS. 
No flowering plants, aquatic or others, are more worthy of cultivation than the Nelumbiums, and none can be cultivated more 
evstly. If they never bloomed, their foliage alone would be enough to win the admiration of everyone. Their enormous leaves, 
of tender bluish green, held aloft on tall, flexible stalks, sway and wave in the slightest wind. But when this is crowned with a 
wealth of beautiful flowers, gigantic in size, exquisitely tinted, perfect in form, and with a perfume strong, yet delicate, it is easily 
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understood why they hold the foremost place among aquatics. 
Their culture is quite simple, requiring the same treatment as other hardy Water Lilies, which is fully given on pages 233 and 254, 
Some varieties are slow in growth after transplanting, and it may be the second year before they flower; but the second 
and third seascns generally repay for any extra 
care or patience expended. 
All Nelumbiums are suitable for tub cul- 
ture. 
Nelumbiums can only be supplied in 
dormant tubers from May rst to June 
15th, after which date only such varieties 
as we can furnish in pots should be planted. 
Album Grandiflorum (Syz. A. /lort- 
bunda). A grand white variety, whose 
purity, fragrance, size, majestic foliage and 
hardiness stamp it as one of the best. Dor- 
mant tubers, $2.50 each. 
Kermesinum. Another distinct and charm- 
ing variety, bearing flowers resembling the 
Hermosa Rose in color; the earliest flowering 
variety, blooming end of June in this section. 
Dormant tubers, $1.50 each; pot plants, 
$2.50 each. 
Kinshiren, Flowers white shaded pink; 
very free-flowering, coming into bloom early 
and continuing throughout the season. Dor- 
mant tubers, $2.50 each; pot plants, $3.50 
each. 
tLuteum (American Lotus. Water Chin- 
guepin). A superb variety with yellow. 
flowers; indigenous in the Western and South- 
ern States. It has been introduced into the 
[eastern States, where, as a rule, it grows as 
freely as any native plant. Dormant tubers, 
$1.00 each; pot plants, $2.00 each. 
Osiris, A beautiful, globular flower of a pure, 
deep rose, very rich and pleasing; early 
and free-flowering. Dormant tubers, 52.50 
each; pot plants, $3.40 each. 
Pekinensis rubrum. This is the best dark 
colored yariety in cultivation; the flowers are 
brilliant rosy-carmine, 10 to 12 inches across, 
outer petals well reflexed, having the graceful 
form of V. Spectosum, foliage large and 
han some; vigorous and free-flowering. Dor- 
mi at tubers, $4.00 each; pot plants, 35.00 
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Peiinensis rubrum plenum. — Identical 
with the preceding, but with immense giant double peeony-flowered blooms. Dormant tubers, $5.00 each; pot plants, $6.00 each. 
f2oseum, Flowers of a uniform deep rose-pink. Dormant tubers, $2.50 each; pot plants, 53.90 each, 
Roseum plenum, A magnificent variety, with large, full, double bright rose flowers. Dormant tubers, $2.50 each; pot plants, 
$3.50 each. 
Shiroman, This superb variety is unquestionably the grandest ever introduced: the enormous flowers are snow-white, exceed- 
ingly double, and borne on stout stalks well above the foliage; it is a vigorous grower and very free-flowering, and equally as 
hardy as the well-known AV. Speciosum. Dormant tubers, 33.00 each; pot plants, 54.00 each. 
Speciosum (Aevptiay Lotus). The well-known species. Its superb flowers and magnificent foliage produce a splendid sub- 
tropical effect. The flowers, which are about a foot across when fully opened, are of a deep rose color, creamy-white at base of 
petals; exquisitely fragrant. Dormant tubers, $1.50 each; pot plants, $2.50 each. 
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For Seeds of Nelun:biums and Nymphezas see page 113. 
