. 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. i8 6J- D* Sturteuant, ^ordentown, J- ©ENERAL List of Tender /iQu^Ties, The Xymphaeas described below open their flowers in the day-time like the common Water Lily. They bloom constantly through the summer in this latitude, and till past the holidays in southern California and Florida. If lifted and kept in a warm greenhouse, they wi
. 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. i8 6J- D* Sturteuant, ^ordentown, J- ©ENERAL List of Tender /iQu^Ties, The Xymphaeas described below open their flowers in the day-time like the common Water Lily. They bloom constantly through the summer in this latitude, and till past the holidays in southern California and Florida. If lifted and kept in a warm greenhouse, they will flower through the winter. Small bulbs in a state of rest should be wintered in water kept at a temperature of 50 to 60 degrees. ]SYMPH^A [iV. ccerulea, or cyancea}\ The Lilies cultivated under these names are of a beautiful shade of lavender blue (not a deep blue), about three or four inches across, but when the plant is given abundance of room and rich soil the flowers will be much larger, and of a decidedly deeper tint. They are very fragrant, the perfume being entirely distinct from that of Xyuiplura odorata. It is an old and popu- lar variety. S2 each. (The Royal Picrple Water Lily) This new species from Africa was first flow- ered in this country by us in the summer of 1882. In September, 1883, the ^Massachusetts Horticultural Society awarded it their Silver ^ledal. It is, unquestionably, the deepest col- ored and finest of all blue Water Lilies known, and some European horticulturists declare it to be the finest of the whole family. It is of a shade of blue so deep that it is not unreasonably called purple. Some parts of the flower are of the color of Lasiaiidra !)iacrantha (a green- house plant). It has the same fragrance as-.^". ca:ritL\i, and even when grown in small tubs or pans, produces larger flowers than that va- riety. Under the treatment given it in our Water Lily garden they attain a diameter of twelve inches, and the leaves a diameter of
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