. Dreer's 1901 garden calendar. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 108. Nymph^a Gracilis. r Nymplisea Mexicana. Floating leaves, dark green above, beautifully mottled wilh brown ; under surface dark crimson-brown, with Small blackish dots. Flow- ers 4 to 5 inches across, raised 4 to 5 inches above the water; bright canary yellow, petals grading in size and shape insensibly into the stamens, which are golden yellow; rhizome erect, producing numerous runners, forming young pla
. Dreer's 1901 garden calendar. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 108. Nymph^a Gracilis. r Nymplisea Mexicana. Floating leaves, dark green above, beautifully mottled wilh brown ; under surface dark crimson-brown, with Small blackish dots. Flow- ers 4 to 5 inches across, raised 4 to 5 inches above the water; bright canary yellow, petals grading in size and shape insensibly into the stamens, which are golden yellow; rhizome erect, producing numerous runners, forming young plants which produce flowers in a few weeks. Mexico. 30 cts. each. Nyiiipliaea p u 1 clier- rinia. A beautiful hybrid of jV. capensis ; under sur- face of leaves green, densely blolched with purplish black, margin purplish red. Flowers light blue, 10 to 12 inches across; stamens yellow, buds sharply conical, sepals marked with black lines and dots. This variety flowers continuously winter and summer, and is the best for furnishing flowers early and late in the season. $ each. Nyinphaea Zanzibariensis. A superb Water Lily, and the darkest blue or purple of the genus ; leaves deep green above, under surface suffused violet, 8 to 15 inches across. Flowers 6 to 10 inches in diameter; petals numerous deep blue ; sepals green outside, deep pur- plish blue within ; back of anthers dark crimson-violet; very free-flowering and exquisitely fragrant. $ each. Nymplijea Zanzibariensis aznrea. Similar to the type, but flowers opening wider and of a lighter blue color. 50 cts. each ; %h 00 per doz. NympUaea Zanzibariensis rosea. Flowers rose of various shades, otherwise like the type, but opening earlier in the morning. .'iO cts. each ; $5 00 per doz. XynilJbaea Elegans. A pretty Mexican species of moderate growth ; leaves 7 inches in diameter, under surface reddish purple; flowers 3 to 5 inches across, pale violet-blue above, lower half white ; stamens yellow, tipped blue ; sepals marke
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