. Dreer's garden calendar : 1896. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 116 WATER LILIES AND AQUATICS. HARDY AQUATICS— NyMPH/E Gigantea. EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES MAJOR. (Water Hyacinth.) A very showy aquatic, bearing very freely flowers of a delicate lilac rose in trusses like a Hyacinth. The individual blooms are 2 inches in diameter. It should be grown in about 3 inches of water, so that the ends of the roots can enter the soil. 15 cts. each, § per doz. LIMNANTHEM
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1896. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 116 WATER LILIES AND AQUATICS. HARDY AQUATICS— NyMPH/E Gigantea. EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES MAJOR. (Water Hyacinth.) A very showy aquatic, bearing very freely flowers of a delicate lilac rose in trusses like a Hyacinth. The individual blooms are 2 inches in diameter. It should be grown in about 3 inches of water, so that the ends of the roots can enter the soil. 15 cts. each, § per doz. LIMNANTHEMUM TRACHYSPERMUM. (The Fairy Water Lily.) Resembles a miniature Water Lily. The leaves are about 3 inches in diameter, flowers pure white, and borne close to the leaves and upon the same stem. 20 cts. each. LIMNANTH EMUM INDICUM. (Villarsia A very pretty floating species, with light green, roundish leaves and pure white flowers most beautifully fringed. 25 cts. each. LIMNOCHARIS HUMBOLDTI. (The Water Poppy.) A pretty little aquatic, with oval leaves, and yellow, poppy-like flowers, standing out of the water. It is a good plant for growing in shallow water or an aquarium. 15 cts. each, $ per doz. MYRIOPHYLLUM PROSERPINACOIDES. (Parrot's Feather.) An aquatic hanging plant is a novelty indeed, and we have it to perfection in this dainty little jewel. Its long trailing are clothed with whorls of the most exquisite foliage, as finely cut as the leaves of the Cypress Vine, and much more de Planted in a water-tight hanging-basket, so water can be kept standing on the surface, it will trail finelv. 15 cts. § per doz LIMNOCHARIS PLUMIERI. An erect-growing plant, standing one to two feet out of the water, with elliptical leaves 4 to 6 inches long, and of arich velvety green. Flowers, straw color. 50 cts. each. PISTIA STRATIOTES. A very curious plant, which floats upon the water. Its long fibrous roots extend downwards, but have no con- nection with the soil. It
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