. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. Nelumbium Speciosum Limnocharis Humboldti (Water Poppy). Flowers yellow, produced in the greatest profusion all summer. Leaves and flowers floating. One of the best plants for shallow water 6 to 8 inches deep or for tub cultivation. Requires greenhouse protection during winter. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Myriophyllum proserpinacoides (Parrot's Feather). 25 cts. each. Pontederia cordata (Pickerel Weed). Flowers blue in spikes 18 to 24 inches long. 25 cts. each. Sagittaria Japonica fl. pi. Flowers double, pure white. 50 cts. each. 25
. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. Nelumbium Speciosum Limnocharis Humboldti (Water Poppy). Flowers yellow, produced in the greatest profusion all summer. Leaves and flowers floating. One of the best plants for shallow water 6 to 8 inches deep or for tub cultivation. Requires greenhouse protection during winter. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Myriophyllum proserpinacoides (Parrot's Feather). 25 cts. each. Pontederia cordata (Pickerel Weed). Flowers blue in spikes 18 to 24 inches long. 25 cts. each. Sagittaria Japonica fl. pi. Flowers double, pure white. 50 cts. each. 25 cts. each; $ Nelumbiums or Lotus Note — Nelumbiums can only be supplied in dormant tubers from May 1st to June 1st. Luteum (American Lotus, Water Chinquepin). A superb variety with yellow flowers; indigenous to the Western and Southern States. $ each. Shiroman. Enormous, double, white flowers, very sweet- scented. $ each. Speciosum (Egyptian Lotus). The best known variety and the easiest to grow, desirable for naturalizing in ponds where the magnificent foliage and flowers produce a splendid subtropical effect. Flowers deep rose color, creamy-white at base of petals. $ each. Miscellaneous Aquatics For marginal and shallow water planting. Acorus Japonicus Variegatus (Variegated Sweet Flag). 25 cts. each. Cyperus Alternifolius (Umbrella Plant). per doz. Cyperus Papyrus (Papyrus Antiquorum). The true Egyptian Paper Plant. 50 cts. each; specimen plants in 11 in. tubs, $ each. Eichomia Azurea. Flowers a lovely shade of lavender-blue. This species of Water Hyacinth requires to be planted in soil in shallow water 4 to 8 inches deep. It makes long, trailing floating stems, growing rapidly and flowering profusely all summer. Tender. 50 cts. each. Eichhornia crassipes Major (Water Hyacinth). Flowers delicate lilac rose in trusses like a Hyacinth. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Jussiaea longifolia. Flowers yellow in great profusion from' June until frost. Grows 3 to 4
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