. Illustrated catalogue of plants, bulbs, trees, Nurseries (Horticulture) Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 72 XANZ & NEUNER'S FLORAL ESTABLISHMENT, Water Lilies and Aquatic Plants. LILIES IN TUBS AND CEMENT BASINS. A good degree of success may be obtained by planting tbem in large tubs or half-barrels, in the open air, either on the surface or sunk in the ground. They should be placed where they receive the full benefit of the sun for at least the greater portion of the day. If for the whole day, so
. Illustrated catalogue of plants, bulbs, trees, Nurseries (Horticulture) Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 72 XANZ & NEUNER'S FLORAL ESTABLISHMENT, Water Lilies and Aquatic Plants. LILIES IN TUBS AND CEMENT BASINS. A good degree of success may be obtained by planting tbem in large tubs or half-barrels, in the open air, either on the surface or sunk in the ground. They should be placed where they receive the full benefit of the sun for at least the greater portion of the day. If for the whole day, so much the better. Fill them about half full of the compost. The large growing kinds would do better in large half hogsheads or tierces sawed in two. A very effective and inexpensive plan is to arrange the tubs in connection with a rockery. The next best arrangement for growing aquatics is to build of bricks and hydraulic cement a basin two feet deep and six feet in diameter, either round or square. Aquatics may also be grown in the basin of a fountain, but will not flourish if the spray is allowed to fall upon the leaves. Soil. "Well decayed manure of any kind, mixed loam or garden soil we find best for growing all kinds of aquatics Tender sorts to be wintered in cellar or conservatory. These tender sorts must not be exposed until the arrival of warm weather; in the fall after the frost has killed the foliage of the tender nymphses, the tubs containing the tubers can be removed to a warm cellar or put under the bench in a greenhouse. and pure white. It may be grown as an aquatic, or as a garden or window plant. 30 cents each. Nymphsea Zanzibarensis Azurea. We offer under this name strong flowering bulbs, raised from the seed of the true N. Zanzibarensis, which they are alike in every respect except that the color of the flower is a shade lighter, being of the richest deep azure blue, far surpassing N. Caerulea or any other blue lily, •except the true N. Zanzibarensis. Th
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