ae ei ‘30 BUILD /A LILY POOD._ 
Dig a form eG the earth about twenty inches ceep, elope the sides te 45 
decrees, tamp smooth and hard. Make a cement plester of one part cement, five 
partes sand and four parte omall gravel. Cive a thorough mixing while dry, add 
water to make a plaster just soft enough so about two inches thick cai be 
plastered on the dirt form, have the top level. 
_‘fwelve hours after making fill with weter, let soak four days, remove the 
‘Water; refill and soal: again four day8, remove tois water, refill and put in 
the plant boxés with good garden soil, also fish and plants. 
A pool, size 6 by 10 feet, will require less than two sacke of cement, if 
built in this way, and will cive many yeors of service. 
After the pool has been built sometime, it may be painted on the inside with 
© black ‘asphalt paint, this paint must be put on the cement when fully dry, it 
helps to keep down the creen alvea that discolors the water, 


_ Ef you: live where the Winters are savere, just take out the fish, remove 
the water, fill the pool with leaves or straw a foot or more deep, cover with 
boards or some 00d cover for the Winter, The lilies, a= hardy, will not be 
sere but, will oie wereych the Winter in good shape, 
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os ops. NoTs 38 FOR WAT IR LILTES AMD WATER PLANTS. 
Place the iy pool in full “Sunshine, there will be 3 more blooms, and the 
a plants will grow better, water lilies and ee pleats ere Summer ; proving » and 
- must have warm weather. 
Do not use plant boxes that: are 400 miei 20 to 24 inches squere is rignt 
and about 10 inches deep, water lilies showla have room for the roets to spread. 
Plant hardy lilies in April, May, or in the Swimmer months. Plant tropical 
lilies anytime efter dune lst. 
Water lilies should be planted in rich garden soil, and after crowth has 
started, put a Little bone ne to the roots of sach plant several times 
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: “33 the eiente: into the soil with the bude just out, top of soil should 
pe. oN éicht inches from surface of the water. 
Cover the top of soil in plant boxes with lerge sravel, so fish cannot dig. 
out the lily roots, and retard their growth, 
Plenty of planta, some hardened plaster peris, and plentyn of snails, will 
keep the pool clear. Run in some fresh water each week if convenient. 
: ee Ente seh ses the lily pool and no mosquitoes will be raised. 
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cS aus ~ SHIPPING. 
Please send cash, check, or money order for lilies and plante, no plants 
ae will be sent C. 0. D. 
: “Lilies and plants will: be sent by express, or _gmall packazes can be mailed 
e if sufficient postage is included. — 
| All plants and lilies are shipped in damp moss, and usually arrive in ood 
- eondition, place the plants in water when received, do not let them get dry. 

HOS Order early, plants will be shined at ‘the kest time for planting, or sooner 
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