LILIES AND IRIS 



front of a shrubbery or with a background 

 of low evergreens. Half fill this with soil, 

 plant the Lily, not forgetting the sand, fill 

 up with water and from time to time replen- 

 ish the water to replace that which has 

 evaporated. 



Water Lilies are beautiful alike in flower 

 and leaf. The delicate petals of the pink 

 Nelumbium with its great golden calyx, the 

 flower when extended being quite twelve 

 inches across, and the velvety leaves often 

 measuring twenty-two inches across, the first 

 to appear resting on the water and later 

 ones rising on straight stems two feet or 

 more above it, make this plant an object of 

 unusual beauty. Nothing can be more in- 

 teresting than to watch its daily growth. 



Every few feet around the pool, just back 

 of the wall, English Ivy is planted, which 

 as it grows is fastened down with hairpins, 

 those most valuable implements of feminin- 

 ity, and will, it is hoped, in time surround 

 the edge of the pool so that the water will 

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