. Dreer's garden calendar : 1896. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. WATER LILIES AND AQUATICS. 113 HARDY ACQUATICS LIMNANTHEMUM LACUNOSUM. (Floating Heart.) A pretty little aquatic with blotched leaves, much like i Cyclamen and pure white flowers. ]5 cts. each ; $ per doz MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA (Buck Bean.) A pretty little plant found growing in moss, with large flowers, covered on the upper surface with Fine for the bog garden. 20 cts. each ; § per doz white beards
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1896. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. WATER LILIES AND AQUATICS. 113 HARDY ACQUATICS LIMNANTHEMUM LACUNOSUM. (Floating Heart.) A pretty little aquatic with blotched leaves, much like i Cyclamen and pure white flowers. ]5 cts. each ; $ per doz MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA (Buck Bean.) A pretty little plant found growing in moss, with large flowers, covered on the upper surface with Fine for the bog garden. 20 cts. each ; § per doz white beards pure frost-like ORONTIUM AQUATICUM. An aquatic with large, beautiful, velvety green leaves on the upper surface, and of a bright silvery white color on the back; flower, small, yellow. 20 cts. each ; § per doz. PELTANDRA VIRGINICA. (Water Arum.) Leaves on long petioles, something like a Calla in outline, with greenish floweis, growing a foot or more out of the water. 20 cis. each ; $ per doz. — Continued. PONTEDERIA CORDATA. (Pickerel Weed.) A free-flowering plant, growing about 2 feet high and pro- ducing spikes of closely-set blue flowers. 15 cts. each ; $1 50 per doz. SAGITTARIA JAPONICA. (Double-Flowered Arrowhead.) Resembling the native Arrowhead, but producing tall spikes of pure white flowers as double as the finest Carnation. For shallow water ; hardy. 25 cts. each. SCIRPUS TABERN/EMONTANA ZEBRINA. A very ornamental rush, growing 3 to 4 feet high, producing leaves variegated in the same manner as a porcupine quill, with alternate bands of green and pure white. It may be grown as an aquatic, or as a garden or window plant. 25 cts. each. ZIZANIA AQUATICA. (Wild Rice.) This native aquatic annual is very ornamental in the water garden ; its graceful panicles of bloom are produced on stalks 5 to 10 feet high ; should be grown in shallow water. 10 cts. each; 75 cts. per THE ROYAL WATER LILY, VICTORIA REGIA. • ^^TENDER AQUATICS.^— • The Following- Varie
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