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Sure to Bloom WATER LILIES 
Easy to Grow in Pools or 
CHOICEST HARDY VARIETIES 
Ready for Shipment April 15th 
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W ATER LILIES are easy to grow. Just plant them 
In a pool, in a tub or half barrel. Sink the tub in 
the ground, place a few rocks and hardy flowering 
perennials around the edge, and you have a miniature rock- 
garden. 
Yellows 
CHROUATELLA. Most popular of all. Broad curling petals of 
bright yellow. Blooms continuously all season and thrives 
under all conditions. The leaves are splotched handsomely 
with maroon. $1.00 each. 
SUNRISE. Largest flowers of all. Sometimes eleven inches 
across. Opens earliest In the morning. Blooms freely. A clear 
sulphur yellow. Petals are long and narrow, and flowers are 
carried several inches above the water. $3 .25 each. 
HOW TO PLANT. Hardy varieties live from year to year but 
will not stand freezing. Plant Lilies in a wooden pail using 
two-thirds rich black dirt and one-third Bone Meal, thoroughly 
mixed. Place the tuber in the soil until only the crown from 
which the leaf starts is showing. Put sand or gravel over the 
top of the dirt and then sink your pail in the pool. Water should 
cover the crown to a depth of at least 8 inches. 
WINTER CARE. In winter.store the plants in a cool base¬ 
ment away from the heat but do not allow them to freeze. Keep 
them wet down so the roots will not dry out. Renew the soil 
each year, and fertilize as recommended above. 
Pink and Rose Colors 
SPLENDIDA. A fine strawberry pink variety blazing with color 
all summer long. The color intensifies to a rich reddish-pink 
late in the season. A new and rare French variety, blooming 
freely. $1.40 each. 
MORNING GLORY. Opens early in the morning. A soft, shell 
pink. The large blossoms are produced abundantly. $1.50 each. 
MARUAC PINK. Pink flowers of unusual size abundantly pro¬ 
duced all season long. $1.00 each. 
White Varieties 
New Varieties—Lower Prices 
Gorgeous new varieties and many beautiful ones added to my 
list this year. Prices reduced sharply. I can supply you the 
finest Water Lily roots available. 
These Lilies Bloom This Year. All these varieties are very 
free in bloom and give an abundance of blossoms throughout the 
entire season. 
Glorious Sunset Colors 
COMANCHE. Best and hardiest variety. Flowers, orange pink 
with yellow stamens, deepening on succeeding days to glow¬ 
ing amber. $1.50 each. 
PAUL HARIOT. In the spring flowers open a clear yellow, suf¬ 
fused with rose, deepening to a dark peach on the second and 
third day, and almost an orange on the fourth day. Later in 
the summer the flowers deepen in color until they are almost 
red on the fourth day. Very free blooming. $1.25 each. 
AURORA. A semi-dwarf. Suitable for tub planting or in the 
small pool. Blossoms are three to four inches across, opening 
creamy yellow, deepening orange red to dark red with age. 
The flowers increase in size and deepen in color late in the 
season. $1.00 each. 
GONNERE. A very double water lily. Averaging 80 petals to 
each blossom. Almost a pure white globe of bloom. It re¬ 
sembles huge snowballs floating on the water. $2.00 each. 
MARLZAC WHITE. Snowy white petals surrounding bright yel¬ 
low stamens. Often five to six inches fn diameter. Continuously 
blooming throughout the season. $1.00 each. 
Egyptian Sacred Lotus 
From the Sacred Gardens of old Egypt. Immense pink flowers 
like gigantic roses with a delightful fragrance are a never-to- 
be-forgotten sight. Plant and care for them same as water lilies. 
$1.50 each. 
Shallow Water Plants 
WATER POPPY. Yellow blossoms resemble the California 
Poppy. Plant same as water lilies. 15c each; 4 for 50c. 
FLOATING HEART. Bright yellow fringed flowers. Maroon 
and green colored leaves. Plant in soil from two to eighteen 
inches of water. 25c each; 3 for 50c. 
WATER HYACINTH. Floating plant produces flowers in lav¬ 
ender spikes when not allowed to drift about. 15c each; 4 
for 50c. 
JAMES BRYDON. A rapid grower and profuse bloomer. Cup 
shaped flowers measuring five to six inches across. The color 
is a vivid rosy crimson, deepening with age. Attractive small 
bronze red leaves. $2.00 each. 
ESCARBOUCLE. Bright intense red, deepening to crimson. Gar¬ 
net colored stamens. $2.00 each. 
PARROT FEATHER. Feathery, green shoots trailing over a 
water form soft, airy masses about the base of taller plants. 
15c each; 4 for 50c. 
DOROTHY K. WILLIAMS. One of the prettiest water plants. 
Graceful spikes of glowing royal purple flowers. Plant in 
shallow water or along the border. 50c each. 
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