
HARDY WATER LILIES 
for Pools 
and Tubs 
“Our water lilies will bloom the first season, if planted between April Ist and July 15th. They may be safely 
-planted_any time before October 1st, but if started later than July 15th they may not bioom until the following 
summer. 
- Water Lilies and other aquatic plants are shipped from April to October. 
AURORA. The flowers open creamy yellow, chang- 
ing through orange to deep red as the flower ages. 
| $2.25 each, postpaid. s 
CHROMATELLA. Bright sulphur yellow flowers, 4 
to 6 inches across. Free bloomer, producing an end- 
less succession of large flowers. One of the easiest 
to grow. $2.25 each, postpaid. 
COMANCHE. Hardiest of all colored water lilies. 
Blooms open a rich apricot and later change to 
bronze. The leaves are olive green flaked brown. $3.00 
each, postpaid. ; ‘ 
GLADSTONE. Pure white flowers with waxy petals 
and sulphur yellow heart. Of unusual size, often 
measuring 6 to 8 inches. $3.00 each, postpaid. 







Water Poppies 
WATER POPPY 
Large, bright yellow, poppy-like flowers borne in 

feontinuous profusion throughout the season. 
| foliage floats on the surface of the water like a mini- 
ature pond lily. It should be planted and cared for 
in the same manner as water lilies, but cannot be 
left out in winter. 50c each; 3 for $1.25, postpaid. . 
CHINESE SACRED LOTUS 
The King of Lotus. Large, full double flowers of 
GLORIOSA. Deep carmine-rose changing to a 
deeper red with age. Large flowers freely produced 
throughout the season. Ideal for pool or tub. $3.00 
each, postpaid. 
HELEN FOWLER. Deep pink with lighter center. 
Very fragrant and free flowering. $1.80 each, post- 
paid. 
PINK OPAL. Deep pink flowers of medium size. 
Well adapted to the small pool; fragrant and one of 
the best for cutting. $1.80 each, postpaid. 
ROSE AREY. Brilliant pink, fragrant flowers with 
pointed and incurved petals. <A rapid grower and 
one of the finest of the pinks. $1.80 each, postpaid. 
SUNRISE. Largest of all hardy water lilies; the 
blooms often reaching eleven inches or more. The 
enormous flowers of clear sulphur-yellow are the first 
to open in the morning. Blooms continually from 
spring until frost. 
$3.00 each, postpaid. 
Leaves deep green flecked red. 
The 



Scavengers for the 
Aquarium and Pool 




|the foliage. 
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| postpaid. 
with green food. 

| CAT TAIL. Well known hardy 
| bog plant. 
FLOATING HEART. Rapid grow- 
‘Yellow flowers. 
FLOWERING RUSH. One of the 
best for pools. Pink flowers. 
PARROT FEATHER. A rapid 
growing feathery plant partly sub- 
merged. 
PICKEREL PLANT. Grows 12 
}to 18. inches high bearing blue 
| SHELL-FLOWER. A good plant 
{for the shaded pool. 
: plants. 
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| bright rosy-carmine carried on long stems well above 
Can be grown in a tub or in either a 
|large or small pool, even in a natural lake. The 
flowers often reach a foot across and the leaves 
2 feet or more. Perfectly hardy. Roots $5.00 each, 
OXYGENATING PLANTS 
These plants are indispensable in a pool or aquar- 
jum where fish are present. They absorb many of 
the impurities of the water and liberate oxygen, 
which is necessary for the life and health of your 
fish. They furnish cover and protection for the fish 
during the heat of the day, and also supply them 
Plants received without roots can merely be 
Other Outdoor Water Plants 
Natural ponds and pools contain many small plants, both above and 
below the surface. They are necessary to maintain a natural and realistic 
appearance, as well as highly beneficial to aquatic life. 
ing plant similar to the lilies. © 
Because of special packing, we cannot accept orders for less than 3 
}PRICES—3 for $1.00; 12 for $3.50, postpaid. 
‘the pool. 
SNAILS. A collection containing a 
Scavengers are the housekeepers of the pool 
or aquarium and are required in order to keep 
it in a sanitary condition for your fish. 
feed on the green scum (algae) that develops in 
Snails 
general 
assortment, 5 for $1.00; 10 for $1.50, post- 
paid. 
will soon develop a root system. 
SWEET FLAG. The native Flag 
of swamp lands; not an Iris. 
UMBRELLA PLANT. Used as a 
pot plant or in the pool. 
WATER FORGET-ME-NOT. An 
attractive shallow water plant. 
WATER HYACINTH. A floating 
plant with spikes of blue flowers. 
WATER IRIS. Blue. Smaller 
than the yellow variety. 
WATER IRIS. Yellow. A tall 
growing variety with yellow flow- 
ers. Grows in wet or dry ground. 
placed in the water or potted in soil where they 
We offer here a well balanced collection of ten 
plants for either indoors or out. The collection will 
contain such plants as Anacharis, Cabomba, Lud- 
wigia, Myriophyllum, Sagittaria, Spatterdock and 
Vallisneria, 5 for $1.00; 10 for $1.50, postpaid. 
Water Hyacinth 















Hardy Water Lily 
3 Water Lilies 
sew $5.00 
Yellow 
White 
One each of Pink, Yellow and White—3 varieties of 
our selection for only $5.00, postpaid. 
Cobra Orchid 
It Catches Flies, Eats Raw Meat, 
Likes Ants and Bugs 
f, One of the 
i most fascinating 
plants known to 
man. It resem- 
bles the hooded 
cobra of the jun- 
gles of India, 
and is one of 
the few carniv- 
orous plants 
known to sci- 
ence. 
The plant has 
no leaves, the 
stalks are 
twisted and fun- 
nel shape, small 
at the bottom, 
growing larger 
with a rounded 
hood at the top 
from which hang 
two crimson and 
green appendages 
which have the 
appearance of 
feelers or whis- 
kers. 
The hood is beautifully colored, and mottled by 
white translucent areas through which the in- 
terior is lighted. Both hood and appendages bear 
many honey glands, the excretion from which 
tempts bugs, ants, flies, in fact all kinds of in- 
sects toward the mouth, an orifice on the under 
side of the hood, and are lured inside the funnel- 
like stem from which they can not come back, as 
the stem is lined with innumerable little hair-like 
prongs all pointing downward, and once they get 
below a few of these points they have to con-\ 
tinue on downward where the victim is absorbed 
in the digestive fluid or liquid in the bottom of 
the stem. 
The Cobra Orchid, or Darlingtonia, is a peren- 
nial which will grow year after year out of doors, 
provided it is given a shady position and never 
allowed to become dry. Along the banks of a pool 
is an ideal place. It also may be grown as a 
house plant, in pots of sandy soil and leaf mould. 
If kept in a room free from all insects, it is 
advisable once or twice weekly to place a few 
small particles of raw beef, about the size of a 
grain of wheat, in the orifice for its nourishment; 
however, if placed where there are other plants, 
in the average room, a sufficient number of insects 
will be attracted from them, making artificial feed- 
ing unnecessary. 
The Cobra Orchid blooms in the spring, having 
unusual purple and yellow flowers. Available from 
October 1st until June. 
Plants, $1.00 each, postpaid. 






































Burgess Seed & Plant Co. 
GALESBURG, MICHIGAN 


