THE SACRED LOTUS 
OR NELUMBIUM 
“Good Stock-Well Packed” 
San Antonio, Texas,March 21st, 1933 
Gentlemen: The Lotus plants that we ordered 
from you arrived yesterday in fine condition. 
We wish to thank you for the nice, large 
healthy plants that you sent us. It is a pleas¬ 
ure to deal with a company that sends out 
this kind of stock. 
Thanking you again, we remain, 
Yours trulv, 
LORBNZEN AND SON. 
A beautiful Iowa pool planted with our stock in May 
and photographed in early July. Your pool, too, can 
give you an abundance of flowers. 
INTRODUCES BY US TO 
AMERICAN GARDENS 
IN 1876 
Perfectly Hardy as Par 
North as the Dakotas. 
TEMPLE GARDEN TRIO 
COLLECTION No. 102 
This gorgeous collection of exotic Lotus will make 
your garden the envy of your friends. Plant them in 
separate boxes in the middle of your pool, placing a 
tub of Egyptian Papyrus in the center. The huge 
leaves and flowers give an unequalled tropical effect. 
SACRED LOTUS ^ „ 
DOUBLE RED CHINESE LOTUS S/1 95 
SUNRISE QUEEN. 
Throughout America the 
Sacred Lotus grows luxur¬ 
iantly, being perfectly 
hardy everywhere. This 
queen of aquatic flowers, 
with its stately beauty, 
thrives abundantly during 
our warm summer months, 
sending up its great shield 
shaped leaves sometimes 
to a height of five or six 
feet. Its gigantic flowers 
overtop the leaves. 
They require the same 
general treatment as water 
lilies growing in water 
from 2 to 12 inches deep. 
Unless the pool is given 
over to them entirely they 
should be confined in boxes 
or their rampant growth 
will cover the pool. The 
dormant tubers as they are 
shipped look like bananas 
strung end to end and 
should be handled with 
care. As the plant starts 
growth it sends out run¬ 
ners which root at the 
nodes, sending up a flower 
and a leaf at each joint. 
They like a rich, heavy 
loam and should not be 
planted too early as the 
tubers start best when the 
weather is warm. 
• SACRED LOTUS. This 
gorgeously flowering plant 
from the Orient has been 
grown for thousands of 
years for its beauty and 
religious associations. In 
India and China it is grown 
about the Temples where 
it is reverenced as a sym¬ 
bol of the soul. The im¬ 
mense pink blossoms a 
foot in diameter are borne 
throughout the summer 
months. They exhale a 
sweet, haunting fragrance 
redolent of the langorous 
East. Customers throughout America have written 
us their great satisfaction in growing and flowering 
this strangest of water plants. Good cn 
strong tubers at our Special Price. h>JGU 
♦-Our Culture Leaflet “How to Grow Water Lilies” Sent With Every Order-♦ 
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