. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 266 fllTfU^RUPREER-PHILADELPHIA-PA^WATER LIL1EW AQUATICS- [1. TROPICAL OR TENDER WATER LILIES The Tender Water Lilies are supplied after May 1st in strong, growing pot-plants, and should not be planted out until after the weather has become settled and warm, generally about June 1st, in the latitude of Philadelphia. Place your order for these plants early, and we will reserve them until the proper planting season
. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 266 fllTfU^RUPREER-PHILADELPHIA-PA^WATER LIL1EW AQUATICS- [1. TROPICAL OR TENDER WATER LILIES The Tender Water Lilies are supplied after May 1st in strong, growing pot-plants, and should not be planted out until after the weather has become settled and warm, generally about June 1st, in the latitude of Philadelphia. Place your order for these plants early, and we will reserve them until the proper planting season. All of the tender varieties are most suit- able for planting in artificial pools, and especially so in connection with formal gardens. They are also very desirable for cutting, more particularly the night-blooming varieties, which when cut, open from three to five days in succession, and are very brilliant under artificial light. The entire list of Tender Water Lilies, when planted out under favorable conditions, commence to bloom about July 1st and continue without interruption until stopped by hard frost. For complete cultural directions see our Water Lily Book, copies free on application. Day=blooming Tender Nymphseas Capensis (Cape Blue Water Lily). Flowers rich sky-blue. Very desirable and useful for cutting. $ each. Coerulea (Blue Lotus of Egypt). Flowers light blue, suffused with white; yellow centre. § each. Daubenyana. Small, fragrant light blue flowers, valuable for winter blooming in aquariums or small pools and very in- teresting because it produces young plants at petiole of each leaf, which during the summer months flower freely. $ each. Gracilis. The only white flowering day-blooming tropical Water Lily. Flowers of medium size, six to eight inches across, produced freely on long stems. $ each. Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig. An extremely free-flowering variety, producing flowers of the largest size of a true violet blue with a golden yellow centre, f
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