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*3 — Rosa Carolina: wild rose; eight feet high, slender and up- 

 right; swampy and moist ground; flowers single, pink, in 

 clusters sometimes, two inches in diameter; buy plants; 

 blossoms in June on to August. 



4 — Ilex verticillata: black alder or winterberry; eight feet high 

 or more; wet places and swamps, though it grows elsewhere 

 also ; flowers tiny and unimportant ; scarlet fruits remain on 

 all winter; buy plants; plant one staminate plant to a group, 

 specifying that all the others shall be the pistillate or fruit- 

 ing form ; set the former in the midst of the latter ; blossoms 

 in June and July. 



5 — Azalea viscosa: clammy azalea or white swamp honey- 

 suckle; four to eight feet high; at home in sandy swamps; 

 flowers white, tinged with red, not large but abundant and 

 very fragrant ; buy plants ; blossoms in June and July. 



*6 — Cephalanthus occidentalis : buttonbush; four to twelve feet 

 high; sandy moist soil or marsh; foliage glossy; tiny white 

 flowers in perfect balls ; buy plants ; blossoms in July and on. 



Aquatics 



Water plants for the pool or stream which is, perhaps, the 



heart of a bog. These are hardy and may remain out all the 



year around, if they are planted below the frost line — that is if 



their crowns are below it. Plantings of these may be made by 



pushing the roots into the mud, or by tying a stone to them and 



throwing them out into a pond or pool, if the depth is too great 



to allow of the other method. These always require full sun. 



I — Peltandra Virginica: water arum; plant twelve inches deep 



in the mud, under water one foot deep, near the margin of 



the pond ; leaves four to six inches long, raised twelve inches 



above the water suggest the leaves of a calla; flowers 



