Excerpt from Water-Lilies and How to Grow Them: With Chapters on the Proper Making of Ponds and the Use of Accessory Plants Water-Lilies are essentially flowers for the man or woman who revels in magnificent colours, for the hues are not equalled in variety or brilliancy by the flowers of any other plants. Is it any wonder that the water-lilies continue to receive a constantly increasing share of attention from horticulturists in all parts of the world? Within recent years, so much has been accomplished through the efforts of hybridising and hybridisers, many of whom in America have equalled or even surpassed the results obtained by the famous French and English raisers, to whose efforts, it is true, the modem activity is largely due. But with the more favourable climatic conditions of this country, still more striking productions have been placed before the gardener. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.