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Adkins, Dorcas. Simple Fountains for Indoors & Outdoors. Pownal, VT: Storey Books, 1999

Allison, James. Water in the Garden. London, England: Bulfinch Press, 1991

Barrett, Jim. Ponds and Fountains. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Creative Homeowner, 1999

Bartrum, Douglas. Water in the Garden. London, England: John Gifford Limited, 1968

Billing, Kelly and Paula Biles. The Lotus: Know It and Grow It. Bradenton, FL: IWGS, 2007

* Bisset, Peter. The Book of Water Gardening. New York, NY: A.T. DeLaMare Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd.,1905, 1907

Booth-Moores, Andrew. Garden Pools, Waterfalls and Fountains. London, England: Ward Lock, Ltd. 1987

Buczaki, Stefan. Best Water Plants. London, England: Hamlyn/Reed International Books Limited, 1995

Chatto, Beth. The Damp Garden. London, England: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.1982

Conard, Henry S. The Waterlilies, a monograph of the genus nymphaea. Washington, DC: The Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1905. Also Facsimile Reprint. Thetford, England: Lark Publications, 1991

* Conard, Henry S. and Hus, Henri Water-Lilies. New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907, 1909

Cook, Christopher D.K et. al. Water Plants of the World. The Netherlands: SPB Academic Publishing, 1974. Reprinted and revised 1990-1996, changing the title to Aquatic Plants Book.

David, Al. Garden Ponds. T.F.H. Publications: Neptune City, NJ, 1987

Dawes, John Andromeda. The Pond Owner's Problem Solver. Oxfordshire, England: Oxford Limited, 1998

Detienne Pol. Les Nymphéas Rustiques. Belgique: Editions Jardins et décors aquatiques, 2005.

Dunn, Teri. Water Gardens. New York, NY: Friedman/Fairfax Publishers, 1997

Dunn, Teri. Water Gardening for the Mid-Atlantic & New England. Cool Springs Press, 2006

Dunn, Teri. Water Gardening for the Midwest. Cool Springs Press, 2006

Dunn, Teri. Water Gardening for the Northwest. Cool Springs Press, 2006

Dunn, Teri. Water Gardening for the South. Cool Springs Press, 2006

Dunn, Teri. Water Gardening for the Southwest. Cool Springs Press, 2006

Dutta, Reginald. Water Gardening Indoors and Out. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1977

Fassett, Norman C. A Manual of Aquatic Plants. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1940

Fogg, H. G. Witham. The Water Garden. London, England: W. & G. Flyoe Limited, 1960

Fowler, Veronica Lorson and Beyer, Jamie. Ortho's All About Garden Pools and Fountains. Des Moines, IA: Meredith Corporation, 1999

Graf, Alfred Byrd. Tropica, Fourth Edition. East Rutherford, NJ: Roehrs Company, 1978, 1981

Gillespie, John, Editor. Sunset Garden Pools. Menlo Park, CA: Lane Publishing Co., 1974

Greenoak, Francesca. Water Features for Small Gardens. London, England: Conran Octopus Limited, 1996

Grinstain, Dawn Tucker. Pools, Ponds, and Waterways. York, NY: Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc., New 1992

Harper, Don. Pond, Pools, Falls & Fountains. London, England: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd.,,1984

* Henkel, Fr., F. Rehnelt und G. Dittmann. Das Buch der Nymphaeaceen oder Seerosengewächse Elgenium und Verlog Mai, 1907

Hériteau, Jacqueline and Charles B. Thomas. Water Gardens. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994

Heritage, Bill. Ponds and Water Gardens. Poole, England: Blandford Press, Ltd., 1981

Hribal, Vladimir. Voda v Zahrade a Vodni Rostliny. Prague, Czech Republic: Vladimir Hribal, 1985

Innes, William T. Goldfish Varieties and Water Gardens. Philadelphia, PA: Innes Publishing Company, 1947, 1949

* Jekyll, Gertrude.Wall, Water and Woodland Gardens. London, England: Country Life, Ltd., 1901

Jekyll, Gertrude. Wall & Water Gardens (revised and renamed version with Foreword, Glossary, colour photographs by Graham Stuart Thomas. The Ayer Company, Salem, NH, 1983

Kaye, Reginald. Modern Water Gardening. London, England: Faber & Faber, 1973

Knotts, Kit. Register and Checklist of Nymphaea (Waterlily) Names, Cocoa Beach, FL: WGI Press, 2006

Koogle, Richard M., Eleanore Lewis, Kellie Sisson Snyder, Greg and Sue Speichert, Charles B. Thomas. Creating Water Gardens. Des Moines, IA: Meredith Books, 2003

Letbetter, Gordon T. Water Gardens. Sherborne, England: Alphabooks, Ltd. 1979

Letbetter, Gordon T. The Better Water Gardens Book of Patio Ponds. Blagdon, England: Better Water Gardens, 1982

Letbetter, Gordon T. The Book of Patio Ponds. Sherborne, England: Alphabooks, 1982

Lewis, Eleanore. Water Gardens. Des Moines, IA: Meredith Corporation, 2001

Llewellyn, Roddy. Water Gardens. London, England: Ward Lock Limited, 1987

* Masters, Charles O. Encyclopedia of the water-lily. Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications Inc. Ltd., 1974

Matson, Tim. Earth Ponds. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1982

Matson, Tim. Earth Ponds Sourcebook. Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 1997

Matson, Tim. Earth Ponds A to Z. Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 2002

Matson, Tim. Landscaping Earth Ponds - The Complete Guide. White River Junction, VT USA Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006 Review

Macdonald, Ross et. al. as The Australian Plant Study Group. Grow What Wet. Melbourne, Australia: Thomas Nelson Australia, 1982

McHoy, Peter. Water Gardening. Pool, England: Blandford Press, 1986

McRae, Jim and Pierre Home-Douglas, Editors. Water Gardens. Menlo Park, CA: Sunset Publishing Corp., 1997

Moody, Mary. Creating Water Gardens. Des Moines, IA: Better Homes and Gardens Books, 1994

Mühlberg, Helmut. The Complete Guide to Water Plants. Wakefield, England: EP Publishing Limited, 1982

Murray, Elizabeth. Monet's Gardens at Giverny. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1990 (a postcard collection)

Murray, Elizabeth. Monet's Passion. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1989

Nash, Helen. The Pond Doctor. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.,1995

Nash, Helen and Greg C. Speichert. Water Gardening in Containers. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 1996

Nash, Helen. The Complete Pond Builder. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 1996

Nash, Helen. Low-Maintenance Water Gardens. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 1996

Nash, Helen with Steve Stroupe. Aquatic Plants & Their Cultivation. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 1998

Nash, Helen and Marilyn M. Cook. Water Gardening Basics. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 1999

Niklitschek, A. Water lilies and Water Plants. London: England: Chatto & Windus, 1932, 1947

Paul, Anthony and Yvonne Rees. The Water Garden. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1986

* Perry, Frances. Water Gardening. London, England: Country Life Limited. 1938, Revised 1947

Perry, Frances. The Garden Pool. London, England: W. H. & L. Collingridge Limited, 1951

Perry, Frances. The Water Garden. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company., 1981

Plawski, Victor. Water Lotus Facts. E-book on CD, 2008

Plumptre, George. The Water Garden. London, England: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1993

Qicho Wang, Xinyan Zhang. Chinese Lotus Flower Cultivars. 1989

Qicho Wang, Xinyan Zhang. Chinese Lotus Flower Cultivars Continued. 1998

Ramsey, Leonidas W. and Charles H. Lawrence. Garden Pools Large and Small. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1930

Reid, Jeffrey. How to Build Ponds and Waterfalls. Blacksburg, VA: Tetra Second Nature, 1997

Robinson, Peter. Pool and Waterside Gardening. Twickenham, England: Collingrridge Books in Association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1987

Robinson, Peter. The Water Garden. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co., 1995

Romanowski, Nick. Water Garden Plants & Animals, The Complete Guide For All Australia. Sydney
Australia: University Of New South Wales Press Ltd.

Russell, Stanley. The Stapeley Book of Water Gardens. North Pomfret, VT: David & Charles, Inc., 1985

Sacher, Richard. Hybridizing Waterlilies, State of the Art. Bradenton, FL: IWGS 2005

Sawyer, Robtert V. and Edwin H. Perkins. Water Gardens and Goldfish. New York, NY: A. T. De La Mare Company, Inc., 1928, 1934

Shore, Stephen. The Gardens at Giverny. New York, NY: Aperture/Viking Penguin, Inc, 1983

Schuster, Eberhard and Siegfried Sommer. Sumpf-und Wasserpflanzen für Garten und Landschaft. Berlin, Germany: VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, 1984

Slocum, Perry D. and Peter Robinson with Frances Perry. Water Gardening, Water Lilies and Lotuses. Portland, OR: Timber Press, Inc., 1996

Slocum, Perry D. Waterlilies and Lotuses. Portland, OR: Timber Press, Inc., 2005

Son Am. Yeon. Daeheunggihoek, 1998

Speichert, Greg and Sue Speichert. Ortho's All about Water Gardening. Des Moines, IA: Meredith Books, 2001

Speichert, Greg and Sue Speichert. Encyclopedia of Water Garden Plants. Portland, OR. Timber Press, Inc., 2004

Spencer-Jones, David and Wade, Max. Aquatic Plants. Farnham, England: ICI Professional Products, 1986

Stadelmann, Peter. Gartenteich. Munich, Germany: Unzer Verlag, GmbH, 1990. Also in English. Water Gardens. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1992

Stapeley Water Gardens, foreward by Perry, Frances. Waterlilies and other aquatic plants. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1989

Suriya, K. Bua. Thailand: Amarin Printing and Publishing Public Co., Ltd., 2001

* Swindells, Philip. Waterlilies. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1983

Swindells, Philip. The Overlook Water Gardener's Handbook. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press,, 1984

Swindells, Philip. Salem House Book of the Water Garden. Salem, NH: Salem House, 1985

Swindells, Philip. Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Practical Gardening - Water Gardening. London, England: Mitchell Beazley International Ltd. 1993

Swindells, Philip. The Master Book of the Water Garden. London, England: Salamander Press, 1997

Thomas, Charles B. Water Gardens for Plants and Fish. Neptune City, NJ: TFH Publications, 1988.

Thomas, Charles B. Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides Water Gardens How to plan and plant a backyard pond. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

Thomas, Charles and Richard M. Koogle, Ortho's All About Building Waterfalls, Pools, and Streams. Des Moines, Iowa. Meredith Books, 2002.

* Thomas Jr., G. L. Garden Pools, Water-Lilies, and Goldfish D. Van Nostrund 1958

Thomas Jr., G. L. Goldfish Pools, Water-Lilies and Tropical Fishes. Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H Publications, 1965

Thompson, Gerald, Jennifer Coldrey, and George Bernard. The Pond. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984

Tomocik, Joseph with Leslie Garisto. Water Gardening. New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group, 1996

Trehane, Piers. Index Hortensis Volume 1: Perennials. Wimborne, England: Quarterjack Publishing, 1989

* Tricker, William, The Water Garden. New York, NY: A. T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd., 1897

Uber, William C. Water Gardening. Upland, CA: Dragonflyer Press, 1988

Uber, William C. Water Gardening Basics. Upland, CA: Dragonflyer Press, 1995 (revision of 1988 edition)

Van de Horst, Arend. Garden Ponds And Water Features. Lisse, Holland: Dutch version - Zuid Boekprodukties, 1994. English version - Rebo Productions 1996

Van Steenis, C.G.G.J. Rheophytes of the world. Netherlands: Sijthoff & Noordhoff 1981

van Sweden, James, Gardening with Water. New York, NY: Random House, 1995

Velásquez, Justiniano. Plantas acuáticas vasculares de Venezuela. Universidad Central de Venezuela, (Colección estudios) 1994

Wachter, Karl Der Wassergarten. Stuttgart, Germany: Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co.,1986

Wachter, Karl. Seerosen. Winterharte und Tropische Nymphaceen. Stuttgart,Germany: Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co. 1998

Watanabe, Satomi. The Fascinating World of Lotus. 1990

White, Hazel. Water Gardens. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1998

Wilson, Andrew. The Creative Water Gardener. London, England: Ward Lock, 1995

Wilner, Nancy Cooper and Simon, Frederick Albert. Keeping Koi. Blacksburg, VA: Tetra/Second Nature, 1996

Wasuwat, Slearmlarp. Waterlilies, Ornamental Flowering Plants. Thailand: Amarin Publishing Public Company Limited, 1994

Wieser, K. H. Mein Gartenteich. Melle, West Germany: Tetra-Verlag, 1985

Wieser, K. H. Your Garden Pond. Melle, West Germany: TetraWerke, 1986

Zou Xiuwen, Zhao Xiaorui, Jin Xiaobai, Beijing Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flowering Lotus of China. Jindun Publishing House. 1996

(No author) IWLS Identification of Hardy Nymphaea 1993-1995

* Sometimes available from rare and used book sellers

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