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are also very fine. Short-stemmed plants 
like odorata snavissima ^0 . exqtiisita^^nA 
0. riibr^a^ are best in the shallow water 
that suits Laydekeri lilacca and 7~osea ; 
whereas all the forms of N. tuberosa 
are best by themselves,and in deep water. 
The Swedish Water-Lily does best in 
cool water. For fragrance, all the forms 
of caroIinja7ta are good and especially 
perfecta^ other very fragrant flowers be- 
ing Arc-e?i-ciel^ Ff^oebeii^ and Bf^ake- 
leyi 7^osea among the newer kinds, with 
Majdiacea albida and rosea ^ and the 
forms of odorata. The flowers of odor- 
ata sulphurea are distinct from all in 
their odour of vanilla,their cactus-shape, 
and their delicate colour. 
Nymphceaalba. — The British White Water- 
Lily, found in many parts of our country and 
throughout Europe to Siberia. The flowers, 
of 4 to 6 inches across, float upon the water 
amid rounded leaves of bright green, very 
variable as to size, and reddish while young. 
N. alba var. candidisshna. — A large-flowered 
form sometimes called the Hampton Court 
Lily. Its white flowers are broader in petal, 
coming early and continued late, and thrust 
well above the water. Its growth is strong, 
needing ample space. Leaves of yellow-green 
while young, the leaf-lobes much curved and 
overlapping. At certain times and in certain 
soils, the sepals are flushed with rose-colour. 
N. alba var. delicata. — With flowers flushed 
with pale rose. 
N. alba maxima. — With large flowers. 
N. alba minor. — A small-flowered variety 
with blooms of great purity, and prettily in- 
curved. 
N. alba V2.v. plenissima. — A form with large, 
nearly double flowers, produced through a long 
season. 
N. alba var. rubra. — A scarce plant, best 
known as the Swedish Water-Lily, and classed 
as a form of alba, though distinct in its smaller 
leaves of different shape, slightly rolled inwards 
at the edges, olive-green above and dull red- 
dish below. The flowers are smaller, fuller, 
and more refined, with broader and blunter 
petals. It blooms early but soon goes to rest. 
With so short a season it spreads slowly, is 
averse to removal, and also to hot weather. 
The flowers vary from pale pink to a deep 
magenta, deepening towards the centre of the 
flower and from day to day. Seeds freely, but 
the seedlings mostly revert, only the tiny slow- 
growing plants coming true. Syns. N. alba 
rosea., N. Caspary., and N. spharocarpa. 
N. alba-rubra var. Froebeli. — An improved 
form of the Swedish Water-Lily raised at 
Zurich, and of deeper colour and stronger 
growth. Of good size and fragrant, its flowers 
are of deep crimson with orange stamens, com- 
ing freely to the end of September. It is one 
of the finest dark kinds, thriving in exposed 
open water, and is effective in the distance. 
N. alba var. urceolata. — A much incurved 
white flower with a dark centre. . 
' N. Andreana. — Bears cup-shaped flowers of 
; brick-red colour shaded with orange, and held 
j well above the water. The leaves are blotched 
j with chestnut-brown, their lobes overlapping, 
and with such long stalks that they float out 
I far apart. The flowers come so freely that a 
j score or more are sometimes open together on 
! one strong plant. 
N.Arc-en-ciel. — A distinct plant with blend- 
ing shades of pale salmon streaked with rose, 
j and crimson-spotted sepals. The leaves are 
variegated in white, rose, and shades of green 
and bronze. 
N. Arethusa. — A plant of strong growth and 
I very free, coming near Laydekeri fulgens in its 
bright crimson colour, but larger in flower and 
j more robust. 
N. atropurpurea. — One of the new kinds and 
thedarkestof all, with very large flowersof deep 
port-wine colour, with paleyellowstamens and 
petals incurved at the tips. Of good growth, 
free, with dark leaves shaded with red on their 
under surface. 
A^. Aurora. — So named from its changing 
tints, which vary from a pale rosy-yellow on 
opening, to orange or reddish tones on the 
third day, different plants showing much vari- 
ation in depth of colour. 
N. Brakeleyi rosea. — A new cross, with the 
foliage of N. tuberosa and the form of odorata 
rosea in its large flowers of clear carmine. It 
