. Catalogue. Nursery stock Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 88 NANZ & NEUNEB'S FLORAL ESTABLISHMENT, Water Lilies and Aquatic Plants. LILIES IN TUBS AND CEMENT BASINS. A good degree of success may be obtained by planting them 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,
. Catalogue. Nursery stock Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 88 NANZ & NEUNEB'S FLORAL ESTABLISHMENT, Water Lilies and Aquatic Plants. LILIES IN TUBS AND CEMENT BASINS. A good degree of success may be obtained by planting them 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 coia< post. 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 oalld of brick 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 fonatain, but will not flourish if the spray Is allowed to fall upoa the leaves. SOIL. Well decayed manure of any kind, mixed loam or garden sol) we find best for growing all kinds ef 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 nymphaes, the tubs containing the tubers can be removed to a warm cellar or put under the bench in a greenhouse. Nymphaea Odorata Rosea. (HARDY PINK WATER LILY.) This Is the famous pink water lily of Cape Cod, and is the grandest acquisition ever made to our list of hardy Nympheas. It possesses all the desirable qnalltlee of the white-flowered species, hardiness, freedom of bloea aud delicious fragrance, with the added charm of deep pink color. A shade somewhat like the rose Hermoea. The flowers average a larger size than the white. Large roots, $1 ea
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