. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. chhoknia (Water Hyacinth) in tubs, $ Cyperus Papyrus (Papyrus An- tiquorum). This is the true Egyptian Paper Plant. From the snow-white pith of its triangular stalks the first paper was made. They are 5 to 8 feet high and sup- port at the top a tuft of long thread-like leaves, which give the plant a graceful and striking ap- pearance. It grows finely in shal- low water with rich soil, and makes a splen
. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. chhoknia (Water Hyacinth) in tubs, $ Cyperus Papyrus (Papyrus An- tiquorum). This is the true Egyptian Paper Plant. From the snow-white pith of its triangular stalks the first paper was made. They are 5 to 8 feet high and sup- port at the top a tuft of long thread-like leaves, which give the plant a graceful and striking ap- pearance. It grows finely in shal- low water with rich soil, and makes a splendid companion for flowering aquatics. It will also flourish and make a fine clump in the garden, with no more water than Cannas require to make them do well. (See cut.) 25 cts. each; extra size, 50 cts. each; specimen plants Group of Cypbhus Papyrus at our Nursery, Rivekton, N. J, Eichhornia Azurea. This species of " Water Hyacinth" re- quires to be planted in soil where the water is shallow, produces large spikes of flowers, of a lovely shade of lavender-blue, with a rich purple centre; petals delicately fringed, 50 cts. each. Eichhornia Crassipes Major (Water Hyacinth). A very free-growing and showy floating aquatic, bearing flowers of a delicate lilac-rose in trusses like a Hyacinth. Does splendidly outdoors in summer. 15 cts. each; $ per doz. Jussisa Longifolia. A very attractive and desirable aquatic, growing 2 to 3 feet high, erect, slightly drooping at the points, and producing numerous axillary flowers of a rich golden yellow, somewhat like an Evening Primrose. A good plant for tubs or planting on edge of pond. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Limnanthemum Indicum (Water Snowflake). A pretty floating plant; each petal cf the dainty white flowers resembles a miniature ostrich feather. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. * Limnanthemum Nymphaeoides ( Yillarsia). A pretty hardy aquatic, with Nymphaea-like leaves and golden-yellow flowers, freely produced. 15 cts. each;
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