HOW TO BUILD A LILY POOL 
Dig a form in the earth about twenty inches deep, slope the sides to 45 
degrees, tamp smooth and hard. Make a cement plaster of one part cement, five 
sand and four »arts small gravel. Give a thorough wixing while dry, add 
water to make a plaster just soit enough so about two inches thick can be 
plastered on the dirt form, have the ton level. 
Twelve hours after making fill with water, let soak four days, reriove the 
water, refill and soak again four days, remove this water, refill and put in 
the plant boxes with good garden soil, also fish and plants. 
A pool, size 6 by 10 feet, will require less than two sacks of coment if 
built in this way, and will give many years of service. 
After the pool has been built sometime, it may be painted on the inside 
with black asvhalt paint, this paint must be put on the cement when fully 
dry,it helps to keev the pool walls free of algea. 
If you live where the Winters are severe, just take out the fish, remove 
_ the water, fill and bank the pool with leaves or straw, cover with boards or 
some good:cover for Winter, The liljes,if hardy, will not be damaged but 
_ will sleep through the Winter in good shave. 
CULTURE NOTES FOR WATER LILIES 
Place the lily pool in full sunshine, hone will be more blooms, and the 
plants will grow better, water lilies and water »lants are Swimer growing 
and must have wari weather. 
Do not use plant boxes that are too small, 20 to “24 inches square is right 
and about 10 inches deep,water lilies should have room for the roots to svread. 
Plant hardy lilies in Avril, Nay, or in the Summer months. Plant. 
tropical lilies anytime after June lst. 
Water lilies should be planted in rich garden soil, and after srowth has 
started, put a little bone meal to the roots of each plant several times 
during Swimmer. 
Settle the plants into the soil with the buds just out, top of soil 
should be about eight inches from surface of the water. 
Cover the soil in the plant boxes with large gravel, so the fish cannot 
dig out the lily roots, and retard their growth. 
Flenty of plants, some hardened plaster paris, and plenty of snails, 
will keeo the pool clear. Run in soe fresh water each week if convenient. 
Keep goldfish in the lily pool. and no inosquitoes will be raised. 
TERMS -AND SHIFPING. 
Please send cash, check, or money order for lilies and plants; no plants 
will be sent C. 0. D- 
Lilics and plants should be sent by express, packages are damp or wet. 
All lilies and plants are shinyed in damp moss, and usually arrive in 
good condition, place in water when received, do not let them get dry. 
Order early, lilies and plants will be shipped at the best time for 
planting, or sooner if you desire. 
HOWELLS WATER GARDEN, SHELLMAN, GEORGIA. 
