Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-11-12
GREAT WATER LILIES.
Beautiful Water Plants I'm Baltimore
Parks That Are Four Feet
Across ON the Surface.


At the beginning of autumn nature
is at her best. There is wealth of
foliage on the trees and all plants
have attained their mature fullness.
1t is now that Baltimore's parks ara
especially respondent, while their
unique features are displaying their
phases of individuality, says the Bal
tlmore Sun of recent date.
One such spot of especial beauty is
in Clifton park. The view from the
driveway along where the old-time
hothouse used to stand, and where
the late Johns Hopkins used to raise
black Hamburg and other rare kinds
OF dollhouse grapes, is charming. The
place mas probably no counterpart in
any other public park in this coun-
try.
The scene embraces the gardeners
cottage. nesting in one corner. AM
pelopsis Veitchii, or Boston ivy, as it
is sometimes called, fairly EMPOWERS
the cottage. For background there
are tall pyramidal cypress and mag
nolia trees to give prominence to the
Gothic house.
The old pear orchard, laid off in
squares or blocks, divided by box
wood-bordered gravelled walks, lives
only in memory now. Superintendent
FItton has at last got rid of all the
gnarled old pear trees. The bordered
walks are retained, and the space for
merly occupied by the trees is now
the home of various shrubs, roses,
geranlums and other flowers, grow
ing in garden styles-that is, in a
sense, an educational picture for Wis
itorS.
Such excellent specimens show the
results of careful cultivation. There
is also here a thrifty nursery of deci.
duous and evergreen trees, mainly of
the dwarf varieties-many of which
later will add grace and beauty to
Clifton and other parks.
The view is a most excellent coun-
terpart of some old-time English gar
den, ard the glimps above the tree
tops of the tower on the old mansion
of johns Hopkins enhances the COM
parison.
The latest addition Superintendent
Fhtton has made and, Judging from
the great interest visitors are al.
ready taking in it-one that is de.
stined to become immensely popular
is series of square or oblong
ponds for growing aquatic plants
Though this is the first season, great
success has been attained with the
lilies.
The Victoria Regia lily, with it's
ICr - ~
measure four feet across-is a great
attraction. 1t has had several blooms,
which generally come out at night
and only last for day or SO.
The Dentata is the largest and best
of the whites, and is also a night
blooming variety. The flowers are
large, the buds well pointed on
strong stalks, and they open hori.
zontally. The leaves are deep green,
with -errated edges. 1t is a native of
Sierra Leone. The other varieties
are O'Marana Zanzibarensis, of a
deep, rich blue! Azurea and Rosea
and Pygmia, the last-named the
smallest water lily in cultivation. All
of these are tropical varieties except
Pygmia, which is from China.
They are all treated as ANIMALS and
are raised from seed sown under glass
in February and planted in ponds
after the water becomes of the prop
er temperature from the suns heat,
which is near the latter part of June.
The present season it was necessa-
rily later. Mr.. Flitton said owing to
the abnormally cool nights during
June. He says it is possible to keep
the roots of eXotics, or, more properly,
tropical nympheas, through the win
ter in the greenhouses. but not the
Victoria Regia. This variety forms
neither bulbs nor rhizomes and cam
not, therefore, be conveniently taken
up and cared for during winter
Settled the Estafe