CHAPTER VII. 
WATER LILIES AND AQUATIC PLANTS. 
Now folds the Lily all her sweetness up, 
And slips into the bosom of the lake; 
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip 
Into my bosom, and be lost in me,—TENNYSON. 
g})ARDLY anything in the flower garden 
g| affords more pleasure than a pond or 
geet) pool full of Lilies and aquatic plants. 
By a judicious selection of a position 
where the surroundings will be in 
&: harmony with the pond, so that it 
may be all the more easily beautified 
by some tall growing plants, such as Musas, Cannas or 
Caladiums. If expense is no object, the basin may be 
dug out as large as required and bricked up with cement 
to the ground level. Small divisions of single bricks laid 
in cement must run through it at certain distances to 
confine the roots of the particular sorts to themselves, 
otherwise they would all run and mix together and be 
one great promiscuous bed, in which the stronger grow- 
ing varieties would crowd out the less vigorous ones. 
The Nelumbiums would eventually fill the entire pond, 
as they are most rapid growers, and in the planting of a 
Lily pond the Nelumbium makes the finest plant for the 
