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Top: Sunrise Queen Lotus. 
Bottom: Double Red Chinese Lotus. 
T HROUGHOUT America the Lotus grows luxuriantly and is 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 some¬ 
times to a height of 6 feet. The gigantic blossoms, almost a foot across, overtop the leaves. They require the same 
general treatment as water lilies, growing in water from 6 to 12 inches deep. They like to be started in from 4 to 6 inches of 
water but after they take hold will thrive in even 2 feet. Give them a rich heavy loam, avoiding fresh manure, until they 
are growing. From the banana-like root they send out long runners which send up a leaf and a flower at each joint. 
SACRED LOTUS. This magnificent Oriental flowering aquatic has 
been grown for thousands of years. Here it is grown for its exotic 
beauty and the splendor of its flowers. In India and China it is 
grown about the Temples where it is reverenced as a symbol of the 
soul. The immense pink blossoms reach a foot in diameter and exhale 
a sweet haunting fragrance as of musk and sandalwood redolent of 
the languorous East. Customers throughout America write to us 
their great satisfaction in growing and flowering this strangest $ 1 50 
of water plants. 1 
SUNRISE QUEEN LOTUS. This beautiful sulphur yellow Lotus is one 
of the prettiest and freest flowering with handsome loosely petalled 
flowers. It blossoms all summer long. Like all Lotus it thrives well 
in the tub garden. The fragrant flowers are 10 to 12 inches $150 
across. 1 
DOUBLE RED CHINESE LOTUS. Huge, double red, like giant 
American Beauty roses. A glorious variety giving a tremendous dis¬ 
play. A truly magnificent plant with huge flowers, closely packed 
with petals, a foot across. A four foot pool had a dozen open $Q50 
flowers at one time. O 
Mixed Lotus. Until May 1st we will have a few mixed $125 
Lotus, good plants. Special price. * 
TEMPLE GARDEN TRIO 
COLLECTION NO. 15 
SACRED LOTUS 
DOUBLE RED CHINESE LOTUS 
SUNRISE QUEEN LOTUS 
Lotus Grew 5 feet, 9 inches Tall 
At Left: "My Lotus grew 5'9" tall and was a beauty. Blue 
Triumph had as many as 6 blooms at one time. We certainly 
recommend your plants." 
MRS. W. H. NELSON, Des Moines, la. 
Double Red Lotus Flowered Freely 
At Right: "The Red Lotus had 6 blooms and the Sacred and 
Yellow Lotus flowered freely also. The Blue Triumph has con¬ 
stantly bloomed." 
J. E. WILKINSON, M.D., Prattville, Ala. 
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WE BROUGHT THE LOTUS TO AMERICA IN 1876 
