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The Moiiard.is will ,L;r'>\v in ;in\- I'ii'ood garden soil, in 

 either sun or shade hul thrive hest when given a sunnv sit- 

 uation and plenty of water. The .species are easily i)ropagat- 

 ed by di\i>ion> of old clunip> in fall ^r spring. 



GARDENING IN AN ARTIFICIAL BOG 

 Pa' Henry Bird, Rye N. Y. 



IVT.X.XN' of our nati\e wild llowers take kindlv to horticul- 

 ^ ^ tural uses and landscape architects are recommending 

 natural plantings to a degree never e({ualled before. To secure 

 the acme of result in such way rec[uires much skill and exper- 

 ience, but the successes are being duly appreciated. Not a few 

 of the acid soil plants and shrubs are valuable in this line, 

 but they arc tabu except when their transference happens to 

 be to a situation closely resembling their original habitats. 

 The true bog plants have much to recommend them in some 

 instances but success in their case rec^uires an understanding 

 that makes ai)peal to botanists rather than others. 



Mention ot the successful trans[)lanting of trailing arbu- 

 tus and the nortliern pitcher j)lant recently in this magazine, in- 

 dicate> that coniniendable human attribute which e\er seeks to 

 do the difficult antl unusual. The writer's efi'orts in the arti- 

 ficial acidulation of soils has found outlet in the production 

 of an artificial bog which may appeal to botanists and is not 

 without artistic possiljilities in its horticultural developement 

 .Xrbutus and Sarracenia, woodland orchid types and the 

 swamj) Ilcloiiias, sundews and gentians, may be Ijrought to- 

 gether in the space of a few square feet in a manner one never 



