If the pool is artificial and an effort has been made to keep the curbing a decorative element, immediate border planting is unnecessary. Rather, as here, give the pool a 
background, removed sufficiently from the edge of the water so that the background will be pronounced and the water easy of access 
A yellow form of this species is Nymphaea pygmaea helvola. 
This also is very tloriferous and its blossoms average about the 
same size. Both open their flowers in the afternoon on three 
or four successive clays, closing them again about six o’clock, 
while those of Nymphaea odorata minor are opened for three 
days from early in the morning until noon. By having one plant 
of the two species one may have flowers all day — a feature of 
water lily selection that should never be overlooked. 
The three above-mentioned are the only plants suitable to the 
very small pool — the one affording from fourteen to sixteen square 
feet of water surface. Nymphaea Aurora is a glowing yellowish 
rose, as its name implies, which becomes red on the third day. 
It is a larger and grosser plant than any yet mentioned, but may 
be grown in a pool of fairly modest proportions. After this there 
comes one of the Marliac hybrids, Nymphaea Marliacia chroma- 
tella, with a very bright yellow flower that is from four to six 
inches across. This will keep sufficiently within bounds to war¬ 
rant its planting in a pool that is not large, if its color and type 
make a compelling appeal to one’s taste. 
Turning from the water lilies, I would like to draw attention 
to several delightful aquatics that are entirely overlooked more 
often than not—almost certainly, until one has studied the sub¬ 
ject a little and learned something of its possibilities and limita¬ 
tions. For example, few things are more charming than the 
water hyacinth—that great pest of the St. John’s River in Florida, 
which will grow to be six feet across in a single season unless 
continually thinned, yet which is perfectly suited to a small pool 
or even to a tub with no earth in it, because such thinning is 
very simple and does not injure the plant. It floats detached 
on the water's surface, only sending down roots into the earth 
if this is near the surface. For this reason it is better to have 
a foot of water under it, rather than six inches; for it grows 
rank and weedy when it can attach itself to the dirt. 
Its flowers are hyacinth-like. In Eichornia crassipes major, 
which is one variety, they are a lavender rose, while Eichornia 
A sure a runs more towards the blue. It is a tender plant and 
should be carried over each winter by bringing in a tuft and 
floating it on a flat bowl or any receptable which will hold from 
six to eight inches of water. An aquarium wherein goldfish live 
is an excellent place for it; and, personally, I like it indoors all 
the year through, as well as outside. 
If yellow is preferred to blue, choose the water poppy— Lim- 
nocharis Humboldti — which has leaves that float something like 
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