. [Catalogue]. Nursery stock Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. LOUISVILLE, EY. 87 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
. [Catalogue]. Nursery stock Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. LOUISVILLE, EY. 87 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 com- 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 build 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 fountain, but will not flourish if the spray is allowed to fall upon the leaves. SOIL. Well decayed manure of any kind, mixed loam or garden solJ we find best for growing all kinds of 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. Cyperus Alternif^lius. [This plant grows readily with its roots submerged in water, its reedy stems with tufted heads, resembling minia- ture palm trees. 10 to 25 cents Water Hyacinth. Eichhornia Crassipes Major, (Pontederia.) (THE WATER HYACINTH.) I The leaves of this charming plant are borne in curious swol- len stems, which at first sight appear like those of a pitcher plant. On examination these stems prove to be filled with delicate, spongy air-cells. It Is
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