Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — Water Lilies. [ARTICLE]

Water Lilies.

An exchange says : “Water lilies can be cultivated by sinking half a hogshead even with the ground, placing in soil t:iken from the bottom of a pond, and planting a few roots therein. The hogshead is to.be kept full of water, and the year following a crop of lilies, surpassing those usually fouud in ponds in a wild state, will be produced.”