Dreer's garden book seventy-sixth Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914 dreersgardenbook1914henr Year: 1914 IHWADREK -PHIIAD!LPHIA-M-^WATER LILIES''' AQUATIK^ 10 241 TROPICAL OR TENDER WATER LILIES. The Tender Water Lilies are supplied after May 1st in strong, growing pot-plants, and should not be planted out until after the weather has become settled and warm, generally about June 1st, in the latitude of Philadelphia. Place your order for these plants early and we will reserve them until the proper planting season. All of the lender varieties are most suitaljle for pla
Dreer's garden book seventy-sixth Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914 dreersgardenbook1914henr Year: 1914 IHWADREK -PHIIAD!LPHIA-M-^WATER LILIES''' AQUATIK^ 10 241 TROPICAL OR TENDER WATER LILIES. The Tender Water Lilies are supplied after May 1st in strong, growing pot-plants, and should not be planted out until after the weather has become settled and warm, generally about June 1st, in the latitude of Philadelphia. Place your order for these plants early and we will reserve them until the proper planting season. All of the lender varieties are most suitaljle for planting in artificial pools, and especially so in connection with formal gardens. They are also very desirable for cutting, more particularly the night-blooming varieties, which when cut open from three to five days in succession, and are very brilliant under artificial light. The entire list of Tender Water Lilies, when planted out under favorable conditions, commence to bloom about July 1st and continue without interruption until cut down by hard frost. Day=bIooming Tender Nymphseas. Capensis (Cape Blue Water Lily). Flowers rich sky-blue, 6 to 8 inches across. A very desirable species and useful for cutting. 75 cts. each. Coerulea (Blue Lotus of Egypt). Flowers three to six inches across, of a light blue color, suffused with white; yellow centre. 75 cts. each. Gracilis. The only white flowering day-blooming tropical Water Lily. Flowers of medium size, six to eight inches across, produced freely on long stems, making it exceedingly valuable for cutting. $ each. Qrossherzog Ernst Ludwig. An extremely free-flowering variety, producing flowers of the largest size of a true violet blue with a golden yellow centre, forming a charming blue and gold combination. $ each. Mrs. C. W. Ward. One of the very best of the day-bloom- ing varieties. Deep rosy-pink flowers produced on long stems. A free and continuous bloomer. $ each. Pennsylvania. A hybrid that originated in the bota
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