TENDER DAY BLOOMING 

 WATER LILIES 



GIVE EXOTIC TROPICAL CHARM TO 

 ARTISTIC WATER GARDENS 



THESE delightful day blooming water lilies will bring a gorgeous pro- 

 fusion of tropical beauty right to your doorstep, and will fill the air in 

 your garden with their intense perfume. Their beauty, fragrance and 

 quantities of blossoms will repay you well for their care even though they are 

 annuals. You can select lilies of delicate pink, lavender, blue and purple that 

 will blend with any color scheme and some of the blossoms are 10 or 12 inches 

 across, and, best of all, their price is low. 



NYMPHAEA MRS. EDWARD WHITAKER: The largest of the day- 

 blooming tropicals. Their delicate lavender blue flowers, often 12 

 inches across, are borne in great profusion $3.00 ea. 



NYMPHAEA MRS. GEORGE PRING: A beautiful, most desirable 

 white tropical, bearing large flowers in great numbers. Especially 

 good as a color contrast, with pink and blue tropicals, and a showy 

 beauty all alone $2.00 ea. 



NYMPHAEA PENNSYLVANIA: A vigorous variety, with large, rich 

 blue flowers. A free bloomer of exquisite fragrance. Easily handled, 

 and the best blue for all conditions. See Fig. 6, p. 13 $2.00 ea, 



NYMPHAEA GENERAL PERSHING: Our most distinctive tropical 

 with a most pleasing soft, clear pink color with lighter sepals. Very 

 fragrant, opens early in the morning, and is a fine, choice plant $3.00 ea. 



NYMPHAEA AUGUST KOCH: One of the most attractive among our 

 tropicals. Pale violet, with sepals a vivid contrast in pinkish lavender. 

 A continuous bloomer, and most desirable $2.00 ea. 



NYMPHAEA PANAMA PACIFIC: This is a new and distinct color 

 among water lilies. It is an indescribable shade of reddish purple, 

 with yellow stamens, touched with the same color. A very beautiful 

 flower $2.50 ea. 



NYMPHAEA COERULA (THE BLUE LOTUS OF THE NILE) : 



Flowers 4 to 6 inches across, pale blue, star shaped and fragrant. A 



free bloomer and easily raised $1.50 ea. 



NYMPHAEA ZANZIBARIENSIS AZUREA: A day-blooming lily 



from Africa, of a delightful blue shade and entrancing fragrance $1.50 ea. 



NYMPHAEA ZANZIBARIENSIS ROSEA: A sister to the foregoing, 



but with flowers of rich pink instead of blue $1.50 ea. 



THE W. B. SHAW AQUATIC GARDENS 



KENILWORTH, WASHINGTON, D. C. ^^fil 



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