
TROPICAL WATER LILIES 


Tropical Water Lilies are the largest, most fragrant and loveliest of all water lilies. Some varieties average 8 EOmI 
inches across, many being actually larger than a dinner plate. Their exotic fragrance can often be detected at a distance 
of several feet. 
In general, Tropicals are better bloomers than the Hardies and are at their best in the late summer and 
fall when the Hardies are on the decline. There are two types of Tropicals, Day Bloomers and Night Bloomers. Both 
are best treated as annuals. Give them at least a 4 foot space if you want them at their best. 
(Panama Pacific and 
August Koch, however, will do splendidly in a half barrel, tub or very small pool as their leaf spread is more confined ). 
Flowers are held 6 to 18 inches above water. 
Tropical lilies are just as easy 
to grow as the hardy lilies. Just 
fill any box (should be at least 
18 inches across and one foot 
deep), tub, half barrel, or bushel 
basket with rich soil, cover over 
with one inch layer of sand, and 
sink into pool. Always plant 
tropicals after the box or tub has 
been placed in the pool. Reason: 
Tropicals have very thin leaves 
and the sun or wind will soon 
wither them if they are left out 
of water. 
Tropicals should not be set out 
until warm weather definitely 
arrives. Reason: They become 
stunted by the cold and never 
recover. We ship most of our 
Tropicals about June Ist. To 
Southern customers, however, 
we will ship as early as May 
20th, if desired. 
A GIANT BUDDED TROPICAL 
(variety, Blue Beauty) such as WE 
SHIP to our customers. Notice the 
NUMEROUS BUDS, the FLOWER, 
the HEAVY ROOT DEVELOPMENT, 
and ABUNDANT LEAF GROWTH. 
Such GIANT, BUDDED PLANTS 
have a head start on the plants of most 
growers. For MORE AND LARGER 
BLOOMS, GROW OUR GIANT, 
BUDDED TROPICALS! 


A good example of a Day Blooming Tropical as grown in the large pool of George 
E. Wood, East Haven, Conn. Notice that there are 8 blooms present, all held above 
the water. Tropical Lilies will outbloom any Hardy Lily tf they are well fed. Mr. Wood 
ordered 25 lbs. of our Slocum’s Perfectum Fertilizer last season. 
The Tropicals we ship are started with a special fertilizer and hardened off in 
outdoor pools. They ship better and grow better than the plants taken directly 
from a greenhouse which most growers ship. 
The plants we ship are not only budded but are usually in full bloom. (Occas- 
ional exceptions: Night Blooming Tropicals which by nature bloom a little later 
than Day Bloomers.) For MORE and LARGER BLOOMS, GROW OUR 
GIANT BUDDED TROPICALS! ye 
In the case of both the Day and Night Bloomers, we have chosen only the 
very best of each color to offer to our customers. The tropicals that we are offer- 
ing here are unsurpassed in beauty, size, profusion of bloom, fragrance, and 
general all around performance. 
PINK 
MRS. C. W. WARD: Undoubtedly, the showiest deep pink tropical of them 
all. Exceptionally free blooming. Flowers are held about 18 inches above the 
water. (Illustrated in color on page 15.) AGIANT, BUDDED PLANT, $2.25. 
GENERAL PERSHING: Beautiful orchid-pink. Often called ‘‘The Most 
Beautiful of All Water Lilies.’’ Flowers often reach 10 inches across. Flowers 
have creases in them which add greatly to the beauty of the flower. A very de- 
lightful fragrance. A free bloomer. (Note: This lily somewhat resembles Pink 
Pearl but actually surpasses it in every way.) (Illustrated in color on page 15. 
However, it averages much nearer the size of Mrs. Whitaker than illustration in- 
dicates.) A GIANT, BUDDED PLANT, $2.75. 
BLUES 
BLUE BEAUTY: The finest deep blue tropical. Often reaches nearly a foot 
across. Very free blooming. Highly fragrant. One of the greatest of all tropicals. 
(Illustrated in color on Front Cover.) A GIANT, BUDDED PLANT, $2.50. 
“Last year we boughta BLUE BEAUT Y from you, and it was satisfactory in every 
way. There was not a day from the time we put it in our pool until frost that it did 
not have one or more blooms.’’—Miss Mary Rees, Palestine, Texas 
MRS. EDWARDS WHITAKER: The Queen of all blue water lilies. A mag- 
nificent heavenly-blue. One of the two largest water lilies in the world. (The 
other is Missouri—white night bloomer.) Flowers average 10 to 11 inches across. 
Often reach 13 inches—much larger than dinner plates. (Illustrated in color 
on page 15.) A GIANT, BUDDED PLANT, $2.50. 
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