. QUATIC •DEPARTMENT. The ever-increasing demand for Water Plants has necessitated our devoting more space lo their cultivation during the past year, and our AQUATIC DEPARTMENT is now the most complete in the country. Visitors to our gardens at Riverton, N. J., expressed their delight at the wonderful variety of coloring, delicious perfume, and the freedom of bloom seen. Not only has the demand for Aquatics increased, but additions in the line of new hardy varieties are of annual occurrence, showing ever-increasing improvement in the shape, size and color of the flowers, which in many instance
. QUATIC •DEPARTMENT. The ever-increasing demand for Water Plants has necessitated our devoting more space lo their cultivation during the past year, and our AQUATIC DEPARTMENT is now the most complete in the country. Visitors to our gardens at Riverton, N. J., expressed their delight at the wonderful variety of coloring, delicious perfume, and the freedom of bloom seen. Not only has the demand for Aquatics increased, but additions in the line of new hardy varieties are of annual occurrence, showing ever-increasing improvement in the shape, size and color of the flowers, which in many instances surpass even the choice tropical varieties. In spite of a cool and late season, the Victoria Pond, with its occupants (the Victorias and tropical Nympljseas), were most satisfactory. At one time, during the early part of September, several plants of the N. Devoniensis type had over a dozen open flowers (not counting numerous buds) each day, and in one instance we counted twenty flowers on a single plant. These plants received no artificial heat (save the Victorias at the earliest stage), and what we succeeded in accomplishing can be achieved by any amateur in almost any section of the country. The cultivation of Aquatics is of the simplest; their requirements are sunshine, water and rich soil; the latter must not be lost si^ht of. They are divided into two classes, hardy and tender; the former may be planted in ponds, lakes or sluggish streams, early in spring, and, under the same conditions as our native Water Lily, they will grow luxuriantly and flower profusely until cut down by frost. They will winter under precisely like conditions as the native variety; provide the-same conditions in artificial ponds or tanks, and the results will be equally satisfactory; where the same are grown in tubs, some protection is necessary in winter; but care must betaken that they are not warm enough to excite growth or so cold as to freeze. Plant the tender varie'.ies at the approach of w
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