TENDER DAY BLOOMING 
WATER LILIES 
GIVE EXOTIC TROPICAL CHARM TO 
ARTISTIC WATER GARDENS 
T HESE delightful day blooming water lilies will bring a gorgeous pro¬ 
fusion of tropical beauty right to your doorstep, and will fill the air in 
your garden with their intense perfume. Their beauty, fragrance and 
quantities of blossoms will repay you well for their care even though they are 
annuals. You can select lilies of delicate pink, lavender, blue and purple that 
will blend with any color scheme and some of the blossoms are 10 or 12 inches 
across, and, best of all, their price is low. 
NYMPHAEA MRS. EDWARD WHITAKER: The largest of the day¬ 
blooming tropicals. Their delicate lavender blue flowers, often 12 
inches across, are borne in great profusion. $2.50 ea. 
NYMPHAEA MRS. GEORGE PRING: A beautiful, most desirable 
white tropical, bearing large flowers in great numbers. Especially 
good as a color contrast with pink and blue tropicals, and a showy 
beauty all alone. $2.00 ea. 
NYMPHAEA PENNSYLVANIA: A vigorous variety, with large, rich 
blue flowers. A free bloomer of exquisite fragrance. Easily handled, 
and the best blue for all conditions. See Fig. 6, p. 13. $2.00 ea. 
NYMPHAEA GENERAL PERSHING: Our most distinctive tropical 
with a most pleasing soft, clear pink color with lighter sepals. Very 
fragrant, opens early in the morning, and is a fine, choice plant. $3.00 ea. 
NYMPHAEA AUGUST KOCH: One of the most attractive among our 
tropicals. Pale violet, with sepals a vivid contrast in pinkish lavender. 
A continuous bloomer, and most desirable. $2.00 ea. 
NYMPHAEA PANAMA PACIFIC: This is a new and distinct color 
among water lilies. It is an indescribable shade of reddish purple, 
with yellow stamens, touched with the same color. A very beautiful 
flower . $2.50 ea. 
NYMPHAEA COERULA (THE BLUE LOTUS OF THE NILE): 
Flowers 4 to 6 inches across, pale blue, star shaped and fragrant. A 
free bloomer and easily raised. $1.50 ea. 
NYMPHAEA ZANZIBARIENSIS AZUREA: A day-blooming lily from 
Africa of a delightful blue shade and entrancing fragrance. $1.50 ea. 
NYMPHAEA ZANZIBARIENSIS ROSEA: A sister to the foregoing, 
but with flowers of rich pink instead of blue. $1.50 ea. 
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THE W. B. SHAW AQUATIC GARDENS 
KENILWORTH, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
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