AQUATIC PLANTS. ETC. 



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Aquatic Plants. 



Hardy Water Lilies and Aquatic plants have become a feature in many public and private 

 grounds. They are easily grown. The flowers are of all colors, delightfully fragrant, and are in 

 bloom from early spring until frost. Both in flower and foliage these plants are unique and 

 interesting. 



The Hardy Kinds may be planted during May or early June, and either put in tubs with 2 or 3 

 inches covering of good soil, or planted in the bottom of the pond and slightly covered with mud. 



The Best Results obtain where there is still, warm water, sunshine and rich soil, — the conditions 

 usually met with in small natural ponds and sluggish streams. The hardy varieties planted in 

 natural ponds require no protection in winter. The roots of the tender varieties can be packed in 

 moist soil and kept in cellar or under benches of a green house with not less than 50 degrees 

 temperature. 



Prices : Strong flowering roots of the best hardy 

 Nelumbium, Album Grandiflorum, Kermesinum, 

 LuTEUM, Speciosum (Egyptian Lotus), Striatum, 

 RosEUM, etc., $10 to $25 per dozen, according 

 to size and variety. Hardy Nymphaeas, leading 

 varieties. Alba Candidissima, Chro.matella, 

 Gigantea, Odorata, Rosea, Superba, Tuberosa, 

 etc,, $5 to Si 5 per dozen. 



Nymphseas, tender varieties, Columbianum, 

 Devoniensis, Dentata, Rubra, Zanzibarensis, 

 Victoria Regia, etc., $2 to $5 each. 



Other Aquatic Plants are also supplied at 

 reasonable prices. 



victoria KEGIA and t)THER WATER LILIES. 



Miscellaneous Plants, Etc. 



Having Many correspondents in the different European countries and with the leading growers 

 and collectors in this country, nearly all varieties of hardy Trees and Plants in commerce not noted 

 in this catalogue can be furnished at reasonable prices. 



Permit me to thank you for the very business-like manner in which the contract lor nursery stock lias been filled 

 I have examined all the goods and find them entirely satisfactory, and up to specifications in every particular The "oods 

 shipped last snring are all doing well except some ninety trees out of several thousand received " 



Great Xeck. L. L ' A L 



