. Catalogue of rare water lilies and other choice aquatic plants with careful directions for their culture. Water lilies Catalogs; Aquatic plants Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New Jersey Bordentown Catalogs. WjiTER Lilies. [F7'0fn The Atlantic Monthly?\ EARLY every town has its Lily pond. Ours is accessiable from the larger lake only by ing the skifif over a narrow embankment, which protects our fairy land by its presence. Once beyond it, we are in a realm of dark Lethean water, utterly unlike the sunny depths of the main lake. Hi
. Catalogue of rare water lilies and other choice aquatic plants with careful directions for their culture. Water lilies Catalogs; Aquatic plants Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New Jersey Bordentown Catalogs. WjiTER Lilies. [F7'0fn The Atlantic Monthly?\ EARLY every town has its Lily pond. Ours is accessiable from the larger lake only by ing the skifif over a narrow embankment, which protects our fairy land by its presence. Once beyond it, we are in a realm of dark Lethean water, utterly unlike the sunny depths of the main lake. Hither the Water Lilies have retreated, to a domain of their own. A de- cline in busines is clear revenue to Water Lilies, and the waters are higher than usual be- cause factories are idle. But we may notice, in observing the shores, that peculiar charm of water, that, whether its quantity be greater or less, its grace is the same ; it makes its o .vn boundary in lake or river, and where its edge is, there seems the natural and permanent nar gin. And the same natural fitness, without reference to mere quantity, extends to its children. "Before us lie islands and continents of Lilies, acres of charms, whole vast unbroken surfaces of stainless whiteness. And yet, as we approach them, every islanded cup that floats in lonely dignity, apart from the multi- tude, appears as perfect in itself, couched in white expanded perfection, its reflection taking a faint glory of pink, that is scarcely preceptible in the flower. As we glide gently among them, the air grows fragrant, and a stary breeze flaps the leaves, as if to welcome us. Each floating flower becomes suddenly a ship at anchor, or rather seems beating up against the summer wind, in a regatta of blossoms. "Early as it is, the greater part of the flowers are already expanded. Indeed, that experience of Thoreau"s, of watching them open in the first sunbeams, rank by rank, is not easily obtained, unless, perhaps in a n
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