Aquatic Plants, Hardy Ferns, Etc 315 



the light- and dark-green, the broad- and the narrow-leaved 

 aquatics as to produce most beautiful effects. 



Parrot's Feather {Myriophyllum proserpiuacoides). — ^This 

 beautiful plant will serve so many purposes for water 

 decoration, makes so rapid growth, and is so easily grown 

 that it should be cultivated more often than it now is. 

 It makes a most beautiful border-plant for ponds and 

 fountain-basins, and planted in the pans of large fountains 

 its drooping growth in with the falling water produces most 

 charming effects. It may be successfully grown in hanging 

 baskets or basins and over the stones in aquaria. It is so 

 easily propagated that even small shoots, taken off and placed 

 in rather warm water, root in a very few days. 



Wild Rice {Zizania aquatica). — A rapid-growing grass 

 of large size and graceful form. It is easily grown, in fact 

 in some places it spreads so rapidly from seh-sown seed as 

 to become a nuisance unless heroically weeded out in the 

 early summer. 



Many native plants are useful for decorating borders of 

 ponds and streams, among the best of which are the fol- 

 lowing: Cat-tail [Typha latifolia), Bur-reed {Spargan- 

 ium sifnplex), Water-plaxtaix {Alisma plantzgo-aquatica) , 

 Arrowhe.ad {Sagittaria latifolia), Scourixg-rush (Equise- 

 Hims sp.), Bulrush {Scirpiis sp.), PICKEREL-^^'EED {Poutc- 

 deria cordata), Bur-marigold {Bidens sp.), and manv 

 species of sedges {Car ex), all of which are found in or about 

 our ponds and streams and many may be easily trans- 

 planted to more cultivated locations. Some of them, like 

 the Bidens and Typha, etc., seed very freely, and a little 

 heroic thinning will be needed to prevent them from over- 

 running the space needed for more desirable plants. 



