Water-Lilies and How to Grow Them: With Chapters on the Proper Making of Ponds and the Use of Accessory Plants (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Water-Lilies and How to Grow Them: With Chapters on the Proper Making of Ponds and the Use of Accessory Plants

Henri Hus, with the cooperation of the veteran cultivator, Mr. James Gurney, whose association with water-lily growing dates back to the occasion when the giant Victoria regia first opened its flowers in cultivation. Mr. Gurney is a pioneer in water-lily culture and his work at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and later at Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, Mo., is well known.

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