. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Catalogue of Rare Florida Flowers and Fruits for 1892. 21 Ixottis, op NelambiurQ. This class of Water Lilies is strikingly different from those just described. The greater part ot the leaves, and the immense flowers, are borne high above the water, presenting a most striking and tropical appearance. The flowers are followed by large and most curious seed pods resembling the "rose" or "sprinkler ' of a watering pot, containing large acorn-like
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Catalogue of Rare Florida Flowers and Fruits for 1892. 21 Ixottis, op NelambiurQ. This class of Water Lilies is strikingly different from those just described. The greater part ot the leaves, and the immense flowers, are borne high above the water, presenting a most striking and tropical appearance. The flowers are followed by large and most curious seed pods resembling the "rose" or "sprinkler ' of a watering pot, containing large acorn-like seeds, the ends of which snow through the holes. The seed (iiriiiiiiatc most readily if a hole is filed through the shell to the kernel, but not into it. The plants must have a heavy soil,as they will not thrive in one of a light, peaty nature. 1f the soil is prepared, a quantity of clay mixed with it will give it the required heaviness, Egyptian Lotus. (Nclumhium Spcciosum.) The wonderful "Sacred Lotus," so famed in prose and poetry. One of the most tropical appearing; plants in cultivation, but equally as hardy as our common Water Lily, though coming from a tropical region. In rich soil it will produce leaves thirty inches across on foot-stalks five to six feet in kngth, and flower stalks live to seven feet tall. The first day the flowers appear like gigantic tea rose buds of a bright rose color. The second day they open like an immense Tulip, the base of the petals being creamy white, most beautifully and delicately Shaded off toward the end into bright pink. They are delightfully fragrant, and in the last stages of their de- velopment measuro from 10 to 13 inches from tip to tip ot petals. Nine years ago a single root was planted in a secluded corner of a mill-pond in New Jersey, where the water was from one to two feet deep. Now it covers from three-quarters of an acre to an acre, a solid mass, the leaves standing from 3 to 6 feet above the water, completely hidi
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