. Dreer's garden calendar : 1899. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Cyperus Alternifolius Water Jussiaea Longifolia. A very attractive and desirable aquatic, growing 2 to 3 feet high. Erect, slightly drooping at the points, and producing numerous axillary flowers of a rich golden-yellow, somewhat like an Evening Primrose. A good plant for tubs or planting on edge of pond. 25 cts. each. Limnanthemum Trachyspermum. (The Fairy Water Lily.) Re- sembles a miniature Wa
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1899. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Cyperus Alternifolius Water Jussiaea Longifolia. A very attractive and desirable aquatic, growing 2 to 3 feet high. Erect, slightly drooping at the points, and producing numerous axillary flowers of a rich golden-yellow, somewhat like an Evening Primrose. A good plant for tubs or planting on edge of pond. 25 cts. each. Limnanthemum Trachyspermum. (The Fairy Water Lily.) Re- sembles a miniature Water Lily. The leaves are about 3 inches in diameter, flowers pure white, and borne close to the leaves and upon the same stem. 15 cts. each. Limnanthemum Indicum. (Water Snarwflake.) A very pretty floating species, with light green, roundish leaves, and pure white flowers, most beautifully fringed. 20 cts. each. Limnocharis Humboldti. (The Water Poppy.) A pretty little aquatic, with oval leaves, and yellow, poppy-like flowers, standing out of the water. It is a good plant for growing in shallow water or an aquarium. 15 cts. each, $ per dozen. Limnocharis Plumieri. An erect-growing plant, standing 1 to 2 feet out of the water, with elliptical leaves 4 to 6 inches long, and of a rich velvety green. Flowers, straw color. 25 cts. each. Myriophyllum Proserpinacoides. (Parrot's Feather.) An aquatic hanging plant, is a novelty indeed, and we have it to perfection in this dainty little jewel. Its long trailing stems are clothed with whorls of the most exquisite foliage, as finely cut as the leaves of the Cypress Vine, and much more delicate. Planted in a water-tight hanging-basket, so water can be kept standing on the surface, it will trail finely. (See cut.) 15 cts. each ; § per dozen. Parrot's Feather The new book "THE WATER GARDEN " gives many valuable points on the formation of Artificial Ponds, etc. Price, $ postpaid, or FREE with an order amounting to $
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