. PRING-Pring. A cross of Mrs. Whitaker and N. ovalifolia. Resembles Mrs. Whitaker in form and growing habit but is pure white with yellow, white-tipped stamens and quite fragrant. The first white tropical widely cultivated by water gardeners.

MRS. WOODROW WILSON-Easy viviparous variety with huge lavender-blue blooms of fine texture. Extensive grower.

gigantea-Pring. Similar but with even larger blooms of light blue. Very fragrant.

N. ovalifolia-East African species, with small deep-blue flowers that stay closed in dull weather.


: Attraction. Although shown with blue overtones here, this water-lily is generally considered the reddest of all the hardy reds, especially in its second and third days of blooming. Grows very freely. if given sufficient space.

-Broad-petaled, saucer-shaped blooms, somewhat deeper than sky-blue, frequently a foot wide and borne on long stems. Leaves are green, marbled brown.

-Medium-sized flowers opening deep blue and changing to a deep red-purple within a few days, bright-yellow stamens, very fragrant. Blooms every month of the year if taken indoors before frost. Viviparous.

-Small with a profusion of crimson blooms. Viviparous. Does well in tubs and small pools.

-Large, full, rounded flowers with many petals and stamens, deep pink, lighter toward the center. Leaves light green, sparsely flecked, fading in age; light green flushed red beneath. Freely viviparous.

-Flowers moderately large and pink, full and rounded with broad petals, the golden stamens tipped pink. Leaves smallish, light green sparsely flecked brownish, red beneath.

-One of the newer varieties with carmine-pink blooms.

-Medium-sized, silvery pink blooms with yellow stamens surrounded by a ring of pink anthers. Produces a continuous display.

-Flowers large, wide, flat, moderately full, petals long and narrow, stamens golden below, pink above. Leaves light green prominently flecked reddish-brown. Viviparous.

N. polychroma-African species with large, bright-blue flowers touched with mauve.

N. primulina-African species with large, primrose-yellow blooms and purplish foliage.

N. pulcherrima-See Blue Beauty.

Flowers moderately large, deep brilliant pink, almost red, opening wide, the petals broader than Pink Platter, base of stamens bright golden. Leaves smallish, dark green sparsely flecked reddish-brown, red beneath. Weakly viviparous.

- Vigorous, viviparous form with 6- to 8-inch blooms of deep red-purple.

-Pring. One of Dr. Pring's most famous hybrids and the first yellow tropical of importance. Star-shaped, 1O-inch blooms of light yellow with deeper yellow stamens. Foliage green, mottled bronze.