. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. A WATER GARDKN Op MODERATE SIZE. VI. Aquatics. " — T/ie lo7ig stents Whose flozvers the zvater-, like a gentle Jiurse— Bears on its bosom.'''' * 4f- * 4f —N. P. Willis. ACORUS Calamus, The well known Sweet Flag. Will grow to perfection in Florida. 25 cents each. mCHHORNIA crassip^s. The Water Hyacinth. A very interesting plant, which floats
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. A WATER GARDKN Op MODERATE SIZE. VI. Aquatics. " — T/ie lo7ig stents Whose flozvers the zvater-, like a gentle Jiurse— Bears on its bosom.'''' * 4f- * 4f —N. P. Willis. ACORUS Calamus, The well known Sweet Flag. Will grow to perfection in Florida. 25 cents each. mCHHORNIA crassip^s. The Water Hyacinth. A very interesting plant, which floats on the surface of the water until nearly ready to bloom, when the roots enter the soil, if in shallow water. The flowers are borne on. NELl MBIUM SPECIOSUM. EICHHORKIA, continued. spikes like a hyacinth, and are of a variety of shades (yellow center, lilac or blue petals), two inches across. The leaves form neat rosettes, and their petioles are curiously thickened and filled with air-cells, which en- able the plant to float. 25 cents each, $2 per dozen. LIMNOCHAKIS Humboldtii. The Water Poppy. South America. Flowers pale yellow, three- petalled, three inches in diameter. They open in the morning and last all day. Contin- ually in bloom, and succeeds anywhere, in pond or tub. 20 cents. NELUMBIUM speciosum. The Sacred Lotus of the East. Succeeds well in a mud-bottomed pond or in a tub, but will not flourish in a pond with sandy bottom. Flowers pink, very large. $1 each. NYMPHaiA alba odorata. The white fragrant Pond Lily. Succeeds universally. 30 cents each. N. Devoniensis. "This is one of the choicest, if not the choicest, Water Lily in cultivation. Under the liberal treatment which we recom- mend for producing the finest specimens, in one season a single plant will cover a circle twenty feet across, with leaves twenty-five inches in diameter, and flowers twelve inches from tip to tip of petals. If confined in pans, tubs, or boxes, the flowers are smaller, bi>t ot
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