. Koerner's annual travelling agent of seeds, bulbs, plants, shrubs and vines. Nursery stock Wisconsin Milwaukee Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. AVater Hyacinth. 589 WATER HYACIXTH (Eichornia [Pontederia] Crassipes Major).—This is one of the most remarkably curious and beauti- ful plants we have ever grown. Instead of growing in soil, it floats on the water, which it is enabled to do by means of its curi- ously inflated leaf stalks, which resemble bladders or balloons filled with air. A large m
. Koerner's annual travelling agent of seeds, bulbs, plants, shrubs and vines. Nursery stock Wisconsin Milwaukee Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. AVater Hyacinth. 589 WATER HYACIXTH (Eichornia [Pontederia] Crassipes Major).—This is one of the most remarkably curious and beauti- ful plants we have ever grown. Instead of growing in soil, it floats on the water, which it is enabled to do by means of its curi- ously inflated leaf stalks, which resemble bladders or balloons filled with air. A large mass of featherly blue roots grow down- ward, their ends entering the soil. It forms a lovely rosette of its curious shining green leaves, and throws up spikes of the most exquisite flowers imaginable, resembling in form a spike of Hya- cinth bloom, but as beautiful as many of the choicest and most costly Orchids. Each flower is as large or larger than a silver dollar, in color a beautiful soft lilac-rose, sparkling as if covered with diamond dust. The upper petal, which is the largest, has a large metallic blue blotch in the .center, and in the center of that a small deep golden yellow spot. Can be grown in the open air in summer and in the window in winter, in anything which will hold water. In the window the most beautiful effect is produced by using a glass vessel of some sort, with shells and white sand so arranged in the bottom as to conceal a small amount of soil. It is also useful for aquariums. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original H. W. Koerner (Firm); Koerner, H. W; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Milwaukee, Wis. : H. W. Koerner
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