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TROPICAL OR TENDER WATER LILIES. 



The Tender Water Lilies are supplied after May 1st in strong, growing pot-plants, and should not be planted out until after the 

 weather has become settled and warm, generally about June 1st, in the latitude of Philadelphia. Place your order for these 

 plants early and we will reserve them until the proper pl'inting season. All of the tender varieties are most suitable for 

 planting in artificial pools, and especially so in connection with formal gardens. They are also very desirable for cutting, more 

 particularly the night-blooming varieties, which when cut open from three to five days in succession, and are very brilliant under 

 artificial light. The entire list of Tender Water Lilies, when planted out under favorable conditions, commence to bloom about 

 July 1st and continue without interruption until cut down by hard frost. 



Day=bIooming Tender Nymphaeas. 



Capensis (Cape Blue Water Lily). Flowers rich sky-blue, 

 6 to 8 inches across. A very desirable species and useful for 

 cutting. 75 cls each. 



Coerulea (Blue Lotus of Egypt). Flowers three to six inches 

 across, of a ligh. blue color, suffused with white; yellow 

 centre. 75 cts. eacl. 



Gracilis. The only \(hite flowering day-blooming tropical 

 Water Lily. Flowers 0/ medium size, six to eight inches 

 across, produced freely on long stems, making it exceedingly 

 valuable for cutting. $1.5C each. 



Qrossherzog Ernst LudwLj-. An extremely free-flowering 

 variety, producing flowers ci ihe largest size of a true violet 

 blue with a golden yellow centre, forming a charming blue 

 and gold combination. $2.50 each. 



Mrs. C W. Ward. One of the very best of the day-bloom- 

 ing varieties. Deep rosy-pink flowers produced on long 

 stems. A free and continuous bloomer. $2.00 each. 



Pennsylvania. A hybrid that originated in the botanical 

 department of the University of Pennsylvania, and which is 

 most aptly described as an improved H. Pnlcherrivta, flowers 

 being larger in size and of a deei>er, richer blue; otherwise 

 it possesses all the many good points of that grand, free and 

 continuous flowering Nymphaea. $2.50 each. 



Pulcherrima. This variety flowers continuously winter and 

 summer, making it the best for furnishing blooms early and 

 late in the season. Flowers large, ten to twelve inches across. 

 Of a fine light blue with yellow centre. $2.00 each. 



Wm. Stone. No color in Water Lilies is more attractive than 

 blue, and in this variety we have one of the most distinct and 

 pleasing of this shade, the color being a rich violet-blue 

 shaded amaranth; stamens purple with deep yellow centre. 

 It stands well out of the water, and is of vigorous, spreading 

 habit. The flowers open early in the day and remain open 

 until late in the afternoon. $2.00 each. 



Zanzibariensls. A superb Water Lily, and the darkest 

 blue or purple of the genus. Flowers six to ten inches 

 in diameter; very free-flowering and exquisitely fragrant. 

 $1.50 each. 



Zanzibariensis azurea. Similar to the type, but flowers 

 opening wider and of a clear azure-blue color. 75 cts. each; 

 87.50 per doz. 



Zanzibariensis rosea. Flowers rose of various shades, other- 

 wise like the type, but opening earlier in the morning. 75 

 cN. each; $7.50 per doz. 



NiRht-bloominK Teniler Nymphaeas are offered on page 258. 



