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Day=blooming 



Tender Water Lilies. 



Note. — Tender Nymphceas should not be planted out 

 until after the weather has become warm and settled, gen- 

 erally about June ist in this latitude. Place your order for 

 these plants early, and we will reserve them for you until 

 proper time to plant out. 



Nymphaea capensis (syu. N. scutifolia, D. C; N. Cceru- 

 lea, B. M. 552, and American Gardens). Cape Blue 

 Water Lily ; flowers rich sky-blue, 6 to 8 inches across ; sepals 

 green outside, whitish within, flushed blue. A very desirable 

 species and useful for cutting. 75 cts. each ; §7.50 per doz. 



— ccerulea (syu. IV. Stella la Wild., N. scutifolia of Car- 

 dens). Blue Lotus of Egypt. Leaves oval, 12 to 16 inches 

 across, under surface green with dark purple blotches, purplish at mar- 

 gin. Flowers 3 to 6 inches across ; buds conical pointed ; sepals 

 thickly marked with black, lines and dots ; petals 14 to 20, lance- 

 olate, acute, light blue above, lower half dull white ; stamens yel- 

 low. Free grower and bloomer. 75 cts. each ; §7.50 per doz. 



Gracilis. A Mexican species of great merit and the only white day- 

 flowering tropical species in cultivation. Leaves green, 15 to 17 inches 

 across, deeply and irregularly sinuate, angles of lobes rounded ; flowers 



white, 6 to 8 inches across ; petals 



"■ — ~" — " ] numerous, lanceolate ; stamens 



deep yellow, distinct and free- 

 .11 flowering, the flowers standing a 

 Wm foot or more out of the water, 

 and possessing a delicate fra- 

 grance. Desirable for cutting. 

 11.00 each ; §10.00 per doz. 



I — Mrs. C. W. Ward. A hybrid 



!S| of IV. gracilis, possessing all 



■j the good qualities of that variety, 



but is a stronger grower, flowers 



much larger, being from 8 to 10 



inches in diameter, and borne on 



stout stems fifteen inches above the 



water. Color deep rosy-pink, 



llll with golden-yellow stamens ; a 



\s, j most desirable variety for cutting. 



;^l| Certificated at New York by the 



Society of American Florists. 



§2.50 each. 



Nvmph.ea Pennsylvania. 



Nymphaea Pennsylvania. A j 



hybrid that originated in the bo- 

 tanical department of the Uni- I 

 versity of Pennsylvania, and i 

 which is most aptly described as j 

 an improved IV. Pulcherrima, 

 the flowers being much larger in ||| 

 size and of a deeper, richer blue ; 

 otherwise it possesses all the many 

 good points of that grand, free 

 and continuous flowering blue 

 Nymphaea. §2.50 each. 



— Pulcherrima. A beautiful hy- 

 brid of N. cczrulea ; under sur- 

 face of leaves green, densely- 

 blotched with purplish-black, mar- 

 gined purplish-red. Flowers light 



blue, 10 to 12 inches across; stamens yellow, buds sharply coni 

 sepals marked with black lines and dots. This variety flowei 

 tinuously winter and summer, and is the best for furnishing 

 early and late in the season. §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; sta- 

 mens purple with deep yellow centre. It has long, pointed 

 buds like N. pulcherrima ; it also 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 evening. 

 §2.50 each. 



— Zanzibariensis. A superb Water Lily, and the darkest 

 blue or purple of the genus ; leaves deep green above, under 

 surface suffused violet, 8 to 15 inches across. Flowers 6 to 10 

 inches in diameter; petals numerous, deep blue, sepals green out- 

 side, deep purplish-blue within ; back of anthers dark crimson violet; 

 very free-flowering and exquisitely fragrant. §1.50 each. 



azurea. Similar to the type, but flowers opening wider and 



a lighter blue color. 75 cts. each ; §7.50 per doz. 

 rosea. Flower rose of various shades, otherwise like the type, 



but opening earlier in the morning. 75 cts. each ; $7.50 per doz. 



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