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Probably the most thumbed page of our catalog every year, judging by the orders we receive, is that page devoted to a selection of six good water-lilies with which new gardeners can begin. We select with an eye to variety of color, flower form, and blooming habit. And, of course, we include only those water-lilies which we are sure will grow for amateurs.
We confine our selections to the hardies, because we feel new gardeners are interested mainly in first establishing perennial growers. Most water gardeners grow the tropicals only as annuals, and so select a few of them year by year, usually preferring to try different forms and colors each time. These are the six we have selected:
Nymphaea Marliacea albida, rosea, and chromatella; N. Robinsoniana, Attraction, and Mrs. C. W. Thomas.
For a somewhat larger pool, which will take twelve water-lilies, add these to the above six:
Nymphaea alba candidissima, N. tuberosa Richardsonii, W. B. Shaw, N. Gladstoniana, William Falconer, and Mrs. Richmond.
For the pool which will accommodate eighteen water-lilies, add these six, and then you will have a veritable social register of the finest, most beautiful hardies in cultivation:
Nymphaea lucida, N. odorata rosea, Dawn, N. fulva, William Doogue, and Rose Arey.