WATER LILIES AND AQUATICS. 



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HARDY ACQUATICS 



LIMNANTHEMUM LACUNOSUM. 



(Floating Heart.) 



A pretty little aquatic with blotched leaves, much like i 

 Cyclamen and pure white flowers. ]5 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz 



MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA 



(Buck Bean.) 



A pretty little plant found growing in moss, with large 

 flowers, covered on the upper surface with 

 Fine for the bog garden. 20 cts. each ; §2.00 per doz 



white 

 beards 



pure 

 frost-like 



ORONTIUM AQUATICUM. 



An aquatic with large, beautiful, velvety green leaves on the 

 upper surface, and of a bright silvery white color on the back; 

 flower, small, yellow. 20 cts. each ; §2.00 per doz. 



PELTANDRA VIRGINICA. 



(Water Arum.) 



Leaves on long petioles, something like a Calla in outline, 

 with greenish floweis, growing a foot or more out of the water. 

 20 cis. each ; $2.00 per doz. 



— Continued. 



PONTEDERIA CORDATA. 



(Pickerel Weed.) 



A free-flowering plant, growing about 2 feet high and pro- 

 ducing spikes of closely-set blue flowers. 15 cts. each ; $1 50 

 per doz. 



SAGITTARIA JAPONICA. 



(Double-Flowered Arrowhead.) 



Resembling the native Arrowhead, but producing tall spikes 

 of pure white flowers as double as the finest Carnation. For 

 shallow water ; hardy. 25 cts. each. 



SCIRPUS TABERN/EMONTANA 

 ZEBRINA. 



A very ornamental rush, growing 3 to 4 feet high, producing 

 leaves variegated in the same manner as a porcupine quill, with 

 alternate bands of green and pure white. It may be grown as 

 an aquatic, or as a garden or window plant. 25 cts. each. 



ZIZANIA AQUATICA. 



(Wild Rice.) 



This native aquatic annual is very ornamental in the water 

 garden ; its graceful panicles of bloom are produced on stalks 

 5 to 10 feet high ; should be grown in shallow water. 10 cts. 

 each ; 75 cts. per doz. 



THE ROYAL WATER LILY, VICTORIA REGIA. 



• ^^TENDER AQUATICS.^— • 



The Following- Varieties are all Night-blooming-. 



The following varieties are among the choicest of Aquatic plants, and most valuable for cut flowers (excepting Victorias). 

 Unlike the native and European varieties, which open with the rising sun and close after noon, these open after sunset and remain 

 open until after sunrise, and in dull weather and toward fall remain open until noon. These cannot be planted out in the open 

 tank until warm weather, as directed under Cultural Notes. 



e^^VICTORIA REGIA.^^3 



(The Royal Water Lily.) 



Of all the family of Water Lilies, the grandest and the most gorgeous is this species. It inhabits the tranquil bays and 

 lakes of the great streams of South America. Its gigantic leaves are from five to six feet across, turned up round the 

 edges, the upper surface of a deep brilliant green, the under side a vivid crimson; furnished with strong veins, which are 

 cellular, filled with air, and form a regular and elegant network. The inferior surface of the leaf, as well as the footstalks of the 

 leaves and flowers, are covered with prominent and elastic prickles. The peculiar formation of the under surface of the 

 leaves imparts to them great buoyancy. The flowers are not less marvelous than the leaves, being, when expanded, twelve 

 to fifteen inches in diameter; the petals are very numerous; their color at first pure while, passing by successive shades into 

 a rosy hue, and a lively red, and they exhale an agreeable odor not unlike a rich pineapple during the first day of blooming. 

 In the States north of Washington it is safer to provide artificial heat in the tank, as the season would be too short for the plants 

 to fully develop themselves without, although the plants will make rapid growth and their odd foliage prove a great source 

 of pleasure, attraction, and wonderment. One of the most striking features of this wonderful Aquatic is thai, as grown here, 

 it is but an annual, and that such marvelous results are accomplished in the short space of six months. Price of plants, $5.00, 

 $7.50 and $10.00 each, according to size. 

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