Water Lilies Give More Color for Less Care 
The beauty of our brilliantly colored water lilies and the charm¬ 
ing woodsy pictures they create will give them a great importance in 
your garden. A pool is particularly interesting in the small place 
where space is limited, for it not only gives you plenty of color but 
a very emphatic character note. 
You will certainly find them very easy to care for because they 
do not need the constant cultivating and watering that even the 
hardiest border plants require. Once established, they go on year 
after year needing only a little attention in the spring and an occa¬ 
sional thinning of the leaves in summer if they grow too rampantly. 
In the wilds they grow along the sunny banks of lakes and marshes 
seeking the shallowed reaches where the soil is rich and black. Your 
garden pool exactly simulates these conditions and your lilies will 
thrive in great profusion. 
How to Plant Water Lilies 
... Their Culture and Care 
CARE OF THE 
NEW POOL 
NATURAL 
POOLS 
HOW FAR APART 
TO PLANT 
SOIL 
In tub gardens and 
small pools (3-4 feet 
square) put the soil di¬ 
rectly in the pool. There 
is room in most pools for from 6 to 12 inches 
of soil and as much water. In larger pools 
it is best to plant the lilies in boxes, for this 
makes it easier to clean the pool or to supply 
fresh soil, which should be done occasionally 
in the spring. 
If you intend planting in a 
natural pond it is best first 
to establish the lilies in 
small baskets of rich gar¬ 
den loam in water 6 to 12 inches deep and 
to later set them in their permanent positions. 
A pool 4 or 5 feet 
square will ac¬ 
commodate 3 or 4 
lilies as well as 
Water Poppies, Water Hyacinths, Buttercup 
Bush, Pickerel Rush, etc. A pool 6 or 8 feet 
across will need 5 to 8 lilies and afford room 
for a generous planting of other small shal¬ 
low water plants. 
The best water garden soil is a 
good loam such as roses do well 
A heavy loam is better than a sandy one, 
as it has enough body to carry the plants 
through a vigorous season's growth. How¬ 
ever, we have found aquatics thrive in any 
type of soil. 
FERTILIZER Co " ““«*• \ s v ?7 ? ood 
used at the rate of 1 shov¬ 
elful to 4 of soil, mixing well and packing 
moderately firm in the boxes. We have devel¬ 
oped a very effective chemical fertilizer that 
will not foul the water as animal fertilizers 
are liable to do. Used at the rate of one-half 
pound to the bushel of soil at planting time 
and later applied once or twice about the 
roots of each plant during the summer will 
assure a luxuriant growth and many blos¬ 
soms. See page 10 for prices. 
BOXES s ^ ou ' c * be at least 15 inches square 
and 12 inches deep. Larger boxes 
up to 2 feet square will give you prize win¬ 
ning blossoms. Make them of pine wood and 
they will last for 20 years. 
GOLDFISH control mosquitos and 
there will be none where 
these hardy scavengers are kept. Keep them 
in good health with regular feedings of our 
Natural Goldfish Food. They may be win¬ 
tered in a tub in the basement. 
in. 
POOL 
BUILDING 
«AMT HfNMI 
My Little 
Book an 
Pools... 
If you have 
not built your 
pool this little 
booklet will be 
of great help to you. Many 
pools that have been built by 
our customers are illustrated, 
which will give you a general 
idea of the various types. De¬ 
tail drawings showing how a 
pool is built as well as instruc¬ 
tions on how to mix the con¬ 
crete, water-proof the surface, 
put in drainage pipes and other 
useful data are included. 
It is far safer and certainly 
cheaper to build your pool ac¬ 
cording to time proved plans 
than to rely on the inaccuracies 
of magazine articles whose 
authors have probably -m «-» 
never built a pool. I Hr 
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PLANTING 
HARDY LILIES 
PLANTING 
TROPICAL LILIES 
In planting simply 
scoop a small hole out 
and push the plant into 
place, drawing the soil 
up about it so it will not float away. In very 
loose soil a small rock placed on the root 
will keep it down. The rhizomes of Hardy 
Lilies should always be planted as in the 
picture—HORIZONTALLY and never vertically. 
Do not cover them with more than an inch cf 
soil and always see the growing tip is just 
showing through the soil. SEE DIAGRAM AT 
RIGHT. 
It is not necessary 
or advisable to 
drain the water 
down below the 
boxes at planting time, as there is far less 
danger of the sun scorching the leaves when 
planting in water. Plant upright as in picture 
at right. My Blue Triumph and Blue Beauty 
you will receive as vigorously growing, tuber- 
bearing plants, which may be simply shoved 
down into the mud up to the base of the 
new leaf stems. Our potted Tropicals and 
Night Bloomers are strong, lusty plants which 
quickly root into the fresh soil in your boxes. 
W ATFR New plants of all kinds should 
y ' 1 always be started in about 6 
DEPTH inches of water where the sun's 
warmth reaches them. If plant¬ 
ed in cold, deep water they may be badly 
checked. After they have 2 or 3 leaves on 
the surface they may be removed to deeper 
water. Lilies will grow in water 6 inches to 
2 feet deep, but prefer 8 to 12 inches. 
WTNTFR The ideal way to winter aqua- 
_. tics is to leave them in the 
CARE pool. To prevent the water from 
freezing too deeply and crack¬ 
ing the cement, cover the pool with boards, 
heaping with leaves or straw. In this way 
they will winter perfectly, for very little 
freezing takes place. 
If the pool must be drained the lily boxes 
may be removed to a cool basement and kept 
covered and moist or they may be placed in 
a deep trench and be well covered with soil. 
Since dry rot is the worst enemy of stored 
plants it is best to leave them under natural 
conditions in the pool. 
TROPICAL LILIES may be wintered in a 
greenhouse pool where they will flower all 
winter. Unless you have these facilities it 
is best to replace them each spring. 
How to Build a Pool 
Our Shipping Dates 
READ CAREFULLY 
HARDY LILIES 
Our Hardy Lilies and aqua¬ 
tics are ready to be shipped at 
special request any time during 
the year. We ordinarily ship to 
warmer parts from March and 
April on. In the latitude of Chi¬ 
cago and New York from mid¬ 
dle of April to September 1st. 
TROPICAL LILIES 
SHOULD NOT BE PLANTED TOO 
EARLY FOR BEST RESULTS 
To warmer South and West 
we ship from May 1st on. Chi¬ 
cago and New York area May 
25th to June 1st. 
BLUE TRIUMPH and Blue 
Beauty are far hardier than 
other varieties, and we ship up 
to 10 days earlier. 
Pools are very simply built, the principal thing to remember being 
to have it about 2 feet deep, which allows a foot for the boxes or soil 
in which they are planted and 8 to 12 inches of water. Such a pool 
will give optimum results, though of course pools much shallower or 
much deeper are perfectly satisfactory. About 12 hours after the con¬ 
crete is poured it may be water-proofed by painting it with pure cement 
mixed with water to the consistency of cream. The pool may then be 
filled with water and left for a week or so to cure. 
How Water Lily Roots Are Planted 
No. 1 is a Tropical Water Lily which is 
planted. If the leaves are submerged they 
will soon reach the surface! No. 2 is a 
Hardy Lily (Gloriosa) whose long rhizome or 
"root" is always set horizontally. No. 3 is a 
sprouting Star Lily whose hard dormant 
"bulb" is set just beneath the soil. 
LOTUS CULTURE 
The plants will look, as you 
unpack them, like a banana 
with a growing point on one 
end. In unpacking be careful 
NOT TO BREAK them. Plant 
them horizontally (never put 
them in upright) and cover with 
1 or 2 inches of soil, leaving the 
growing tip just at the soil sur¬ 
face. They should not be cov¬ 
ered with more than 6 inches 
of water until growth starts. 
When they are growing well 
the water depth may be in¬ 
creased to a foot if necessary. 
Plant in a rich heavy soil free 
from animal fertilizers for best 
results. 
We don't like to ship them 
too early in the season, for they 
will often fail to grow if the 
weather is too cold. 
FREE with All Orders 1 
My Booklet, "The Cul¬ 
ture of Water Lilies." 
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