Yellow Water Lily

Yellow Water-Lily (Nuphar) - Bold water plants nearly allied to the Water-Lily, but not so handsome. The most familiar Nuphar is the common Yellow Water-Lily (N. lutea), which inhabits many of our lakes and slow-running rivers. It has a very interesting little variety called pumila, which is found wild in some of the Highland lakes, and which has the same vinous perfume as the type. N. advena is the N American ally of our yellow Water-Lily, and resembling it, but larger and with leaves which stand erect out of the water, and is a much finer plant. N. Kalmiana, also a N. American kind, much resembles the small variety of N. lutea, and is an interesting plant to grow in company with it. The cultivation is quite simple—placing the root-stocks in water 2 or 3 feet deep, when they will soon root in the mud; but they are apt to increase too rapidly, and may prove troublesome to get rid of.

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