A Gloucestershire wild garden with some extraneous matter / by the Curator [Henry Cook].

  • Cook, Henry (c. 1831-1927)
Date:
1903
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Credit: A Gloucestershire wild garden with some extraneous matter / by the Curator [Henry Cook]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    *95 most beautiful, and quite hardy so far as my experience goes. The flowers at their first opening are of a soft rose colour, which goes on deepening until it becomes a deep blood red, and thus it lasts for several days. Successive buds rise to the surface and undergo the same changes, and as the plant is a prolific flowering one, the succession is kept up for several months—indeed, well into the autumn, long after the common White Lily has ceased to flower. It was very expensive when first brought out, but is now within the reach of most amateurs. N. Marliacea is still cheaper, and is very charming. The flowers are large and of a pale yellow colour, and the leaves are enriched with marblings of purple. N. Marliacea albida is a pure white and of great size, sometimes measuring 7 inches across—a magnificent flower. N. Mar- liacea carnea is nearly allied to it, and has flesh- coloured flowers. Lastly, there is N. M. rosea, with flowers of a rosy pink. There are still other rarer kinds which are not easy to obtain, some with many petals, richly marbled with colour or with petals green behind, and edged with rose and pink in front. In a recent list sent me I find still others, varying in price from fifteen to thirty-five shillings per root, but I prefer to speak of those I have tested and found to be truly charming. In planting these Water-lilies there is no 13—2
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