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EDWARD GIL RETT’S CATALOGUE. 
feet with a raceme of beautiful pink or purple flowers, riant in a wet place or 
bog. 25 cents each, §2 per dozen. 
JUNCUS effUSUS (Bog Rush) — Stem round, dark green, 2 to 4 feet high, 
bearing near the top a cluster of small, inconspicuous flowers. Desirable for 
wet places or shallow water, also the bog. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen. Blc 
LIMNANTHEMUN hiciinosilin (Floating Heart) — A pretty little aquatic, 
with small blotched leaves and pure white flowers. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 
MENYANTHES trifoliate (Buekbean) — A pretty little bog plant found 
growing in moss, with large, pure white flowers, covered on the upper surface 
with frost-like beards. Fine for the bog garden. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 
NASTURTIUM officinale (Hardy English Water Cress) — A well-known 
hardy perennial aquatic, easily grown in any stream. Flowers white. 8 cents 
each, 75 cents per dozen. 
NESAEA verticillata — A pretty little water shrub, found along the margin 
of lakes in shallow water or wet ground, with clusters of small rose purple 
flowers, forming large clumps. 25 cents each, §1.50 per dozen. 
NUPHAR advena (Common Yellow Lily)—With large leaves and single 
yellow flowers. 20 cents each, §2 per dozen. 
NYMPILEA (Water Lily). 
odorata (Sweet-Scented Water Lily) — This plant is too generally known to need 
description. Its large fragrant white flowers are well worth the trouble re¬ 
quired in growing them. Where no pond or slow-flowing stream is near at 
hand, the plant may be grown in a large tub partly lilled with rich mud or clay, 
the roots planted in this and the tub filled with water. 20 cents each, §1.50 per 
dozen. 
0R0NTII M aquation Ill (Seedlings) — An aquatic with large, beautiful 
velvety leaves, green on the upper surface, and of a bright silvery white color 
on the back; flowers small, yellow. 15 cents each, §1 per dozen. 
PELTANDERA Virfsinica (Water Arum) — Leaves on long petioles, some¬ 
thing like a calla in outline, with greenish flowers, growing a foot or more out 
of the water. 15 cents each, §1 per dozen. 
P0NTEDERIA cordata (Pickerel 
Weed)—Flowers blue. 20 cents 
each, by express, §1.50 per dozen. 
P0NTEDERIA (The Water Hya¬ 
cinth)—Most beautiful and easily 
grown. It floats on the water by 
means of inflated leaves. It re¬ 
quires no soil. The flowers are 
large, rosy lilac in color, along 
the stalk raised out of the water, 
resembling a hyacinth in full bloom. 
15 cents each. 
SARRACENIA purpurea (Pitcher 
Plant) — This plant usually sends 
up a single flower stalk 0 to 18 
inches high, bearing a single deep 
sarkackxia rrnrruKA. purple flower an inch or more 
broad. Leaves pitcher-shaped, curved, ascending, 2 to 0 inches in length. The 
Sarracenias are all line bog plants. 10 cents each, SI per dozen, 
flava ( r I rumpet Leaf) — Flowers and leaves yellow ? the former 4 to 5 inches wide, 
leaves 2 feet long. 15 cents each, §1.50 per dozen. 
Drummondi — Leaves 2 feet long, beautifully variegated, llowers 3 inches wide. 
20 cents each. §2f per dozen. 
Psittacina (Parrot-beaked Pitcher Plant)—Quite small 
§2 per dozen. 
rubra (Red Flowered Trumpet Leaf)—Pitchers red 
flowers. 15 cents each, §1.50 per dozen, 
variolaris — A smaller species from Georgia, with taller and more slender leaves. 
15 cents each, §1.50 per dozen. 
and rare. 20 cents each, 
veined and reddish-purple 
