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Show wate.i Lilies are passim Beautiful Flowers Have Greatly Decreased De-creased In Indiana Almost Disappeared Dis-appeared in Some Lakes. Many of the smaller lakes of Indiana In-diana a few years ago floated an abundance of water lilies. As the years have gone by and the numbers of oscursica'.sts and summer guests (J. these places have increased, the lilies have greatly decreased and from sme lakcn have almost disappeared. Yvhat beautiful flower, beautiful in its m s Heal loveliness is the white v.ater lily which belongs to the same r-pecies as the lotus, which the ancient Egyptians held sacred! How lovely Is our lily floating amid its great rounded leaves closing at night to reappear the nest morning in all its unspotted purity. July and August are the months for this flower. An old writer in enthusiastic admiration of this lily says: "Ah, how lovely it looks, floating double, lily and shadow, with its broad leaves looking like green resting I.bices for this queen of waters to Bit upon, while dirking her ivory sanda'ts in thayieldi" .- liver; or, when rocked i y a ,-?ntle vir. 'e one may fancy they iook lilts a moStig fairy fleet with low green hulls and white sails, sl07?ly making for the hore!" But unless i 'O vandal hand of the visitor to tin-;0: '.akes is stayed these lilies will soo:i be as rare as white blackbirds. |