Depths for Planting Water Plants 
* Do best in 6" of water, 
t Do best in 2" of water, 
t Do well in 2" to 12" of water. 
SHALLOW WATER PLANTS 
Here are found the many charming 
flowering plants that help to give the 
water garden its color and beauty. 
Every pool needs these interesting, 
tush growing plants for they form 
the frame for the lilies. 
*WATER POPPY. Cheerful yellow 
flowers like big California Poppies. 
The handsome flowers with maroon 
eye are borne on floating runners all 
summer long in the greatest pro¬ 
fusion. Plant as you would a water 
lily. 15c. 4 for 50c. $1 per dozen. 
tTBUE GIANT ARROWHEAD. 
(Sag. montevidensis). Turn to rear 
cover for colored illustration. (Lower 
left). One of the best. Grows 5 feet 
high when well matured! Easy to 
grow, always in flower. 35c. 
^PORCUPINE GRASS. Porcupine quills banded 
cream and green alternately. A handsome plant 
growing 2 to 3 feet high. Easy growing. 25c. 
fWATER CANNA. Grows 3 to 5 feet high. Looks 
somewhat like a Canna but has purple flowers. When 
established it is very easy to grow. It is hardy any¬ 
where. A fine thing. 40c. 
+AZURE PICKEREL PLANT. A most attractive 
novelty from South America. Grows in the swamps 
about Montevideo. From 2 to 6 feet tall, each heart 
shaped leaf ends in a spike of bright blue flowers. 
The buds are covered with silvery wool. A fine plant 
blooming throughout the summer. You will enjoy 
this easiest growing of aquatics. 35c. 
^PRIMROSE CREEPER. A rapidly growing vine 
for covering rocks. Will quickly cover over concrete 
edge of pool. Beautiful shining green leaves veined 
Young Mr. Heck, of Monmouth, Ore., is fishing for 
big game. Also you will notice Johnson’s lilies are 
blooming well. 
with white and handsome large golden yellow blos¬ 
soms. When growing out over the water it is par¬ 
tially submerged, its long wreath-like tendrils being 
very graceful. 20c. 3 for 50c. 
+Pour Leaf Water Clover. (Marsillia). Handsome 
water fern with clover-like fronds. A pretty, hardy 
plant, growing quickly in shallow or deep water. 
The clover-like fronds sometime float on the water 
and sometime cover like a lawn. You will like it. 
20c. 3 for 50c. 
^EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS. Our most 
popular water plant. Turn to page 22 
for illustration, also illustrated in 
color on back cover. It grows wild 
along the Nile where the ancient 
Egyptians used it for making paper. 
It throws up graceful stems 3 to 8 
feet tall ending in immense plumy 
heads. Every pool no matter how small 
should have this remarkable plant 
famed in Bible history. 35c. 3 for 75c. 
f BUTTERFLY RUSH. (Sag. papil 
losa). Graceful arching spikes of 
fluttering butterfly-like white blos¬ 
soms. The green fan-like spray of 
leaves grows from 2 to 4 feet high. 
One of the best novelties we have in¬ 
troduced. An easily grown, necessary 
plant. 35c. 
fPRIMROSE WILLOW. A graceful bushy plant 
with large golden yellow flowers and willow like 
leaves. Grows from 2 to 3 feet high producing plenty 
of flowers all summer long. We have it in bloom 
from April to December. Is hardy anywhere and easy 
to grow in any pool. 35c. 3 for 75c. 
J # FLOWERING BEAUTIES # J 
) COLLECTION No. 120 j 
( Five attractive flowering beauties for every ) 
| pool. No one can afford to be without these ) 
) striking blossoms. Peacock Hyacinth, Butter- ) 
) fly Rush, Primrose Willow, Primrose Creeper, \ 
) Azure Pickerel Plant. $1.25. \ 
fPickerel Plant. Clusters of purple flowers with 
yellow Peacock eye. Blooms all summer. The flowers 
are borne in the center of the heart shaped leaves. 
Perfectly hardy this plant grows 2 feet high. 25c. 
:j:Farrot Feather. Fine for trailing over rocks or 
a fountain. Soft feathery green tendrils. Grows very 
rapidly and is a good plant for fish. 2 bunches 25c. 
fCALLA LILY. A very tropical looking plant with 
large snowy-white trumpet flowers. Grows freely in 
quite shallow water and is everblooming. A fine win¬ 
ter blooming pot plant. Put it in a sunny window 
in the fall. One of our best. 40c. 
fElephant Ear. The leaves are immense reaching 
over 3 feet across. See illustration on page 20. They 
are lustrous, emerald green. Needs warm weather 
and should be planted with only roots in water. 
Thrives in damp soil. 35c. 
^Floating- Heart. Bright yellow flowers like a 
fringed Gentian. They last but a day but new ones 
are continually produced on the floating runners. 
The water lily-like leaves are handsomely marked 
with maroon. Very hardy. 25c. 
WATER POPPY 
SEE PAGE 2 ON HOW TO ORDER-♦ 
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