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large, handsome leaves are very ornamental in young plants. 

 It will crow to the height of six or eight feet when treated 

 as an annual and should be used only as such. The seeds 

 are sown in a greenhouse or frame early in spring. The 

 young plants grow rapidly. Thrives best in a rich and well 

 worked garden soil. 



THE ABTTM FAMILY. 



Cuckoo-Pint, Arum maculatum. — A very ornamental 

 plant nine inches high, forming handsome masses of foliage. 

 Leaves sagitate or hastate, bright green with black-purple 

 spots. Flowers whitish, spotted. Nice iu moist places iu 

 a rockeiy or wood or on the margin of a stream. The 

 evergreen Arum italicum is also useful for covering the 

 ground beneath trees and shrubs in moist places. 



Arrow-Leaf, Peltandra Virginica. — A common water- 

 side plant from oue to two feet high. Leaves large, has- 

 tate, pale green, forming nice masses of foliage ; flowers 

 insignificant. In very shallow water or in moist places iu 

 a rockeiy. 



Wild Calla, CaUa. pdlustris. — Very attractive; leaves 

 ovate or heart-shaped, erect, bright green. Spotless white 

 and showy, spadix yellow. Height six or eight inches. A 

 handsome plant for very shallow water ; may be grown in 

 tubs for cisterns and small ponds. 



THK WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY. 



Water Plantain, Alisma Plantago. — Leaves all radical, 

 ovate or heart-shaped, on long petioles. Flowers small, 

 white, in a large panicle two feet high. In shallow water, 



