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 Ist, in the latitude of Philadelphia. Place your order for 
these plants early, and we will reserve them until the proper planting season. All of the tender varieties are most suit- 
able 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 stopped by hard frost. 
Book, copies free on application. 
Day-blooming Tender Nymphzas 
Capensis (Cape Blue Water Lily). Flowers rich sky-blue. 
Very desirable and useful for cutting. $1.00 each. 
For complete cultural directions see our Water Lily 
Pennsylvania. A hybrid that originated in the botanical 
Coerulea (Blue Lotus of Egypt). Flowers light blue, suffused 
with white; yellow centre. $1.00 each. 
Daubenyana. Small, fragrant light blue flowers, valuable 
for winter blooming in aquariums or small pools and very in- 
teresting because it produces young plants at petiole of each 
leaf, which during the summer months flower freely. $1.00 
each. : 
Gracilis. The only white flowering day-blooming tropical 
Water Lily. Flowers of medium size, six to eight inches 
across, produced freely on long stems. $1.50 each. 
Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig. An extremely free-flowering 
variety, producing flowers of the 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. 
Ovalifolia. A new variety from East Africa, which is entirely 
distinct from all others, The flowers are of large size, 8 to 
10 inches across, held well above the foliage and of a deep 
creamy white; the base_of each petal being faintly suffused 
with blue, which gradually deepens until the tips of each 
petal are a decided light corn-flower blue, stamens sulphur 
yellow, making a novel and charming color combination. 
The petals are rather long and narrow, giving the flower a 
pretty star shape. Very fragrant and a strong grower and 
free-flowering. Awarded several certificates of merit the past 
season. Strong plants ready June Ist. $10.00 each. 
department of the University of Pennsylvania, and which is 
most aptly described as an improved JV. pulcherrima, flow- 
ers being larger in size and of a deeper, richer blue; other- 
wise it possesses all the many good points of that grand, free 
and continuous flowering Nymphza. $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. Ofa fine light blue with yellow centre. $2.00 each. 
Wm. Stone. 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. 
Zanzibariensis. A superb Water Lily, and the darkest 
blue or purple of the genus. 
diameter; very free-flowering and exquisitely fragrant. $1.50 
Flowers six to ten inches in 
each. 
Zanzibariensis azurea. 
opening wider and ofa clear azure-blue color. 
Zanzibariensis rosea. 
otherwise like the type, but opening earlier in the morning. 
$1.00 each. 
Similar to the type, but flowers 
$1.00 each. 
Flowers of various shades of rose, 
Note what we say regarding time of shipment of Tender Water Lilies 
