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one often sees a beautiful fringe of foliage. In the 

 swamp itself many beautiful plants are likely to 

 find a congenial home, among these being iris, cat- 

 tails, many kinds of sedges, arrowleaf, cardinal 

 flowers, marsh marigolds, pitcher-plants, sundews, 

 swamp honeysuckle, ferns, astilbes, clethra, Joe- 

 Pye weed and other eupatoriums, various grasses, 

 and sometimes such showy plants as lady's-slippers 

 and other orchids. 



Marshes are often especially beautiful in autumn 

 when their abundant vegetation and the leaves of 

 surrounding trees and bushes are rich in color. 

 There is hardly any better place than the edge of 

 a marsh for the study of marginal planting. Here 

 one sees interesting bays, delightful grading of ver- 

 dure from the sedges to swamp roses, winterberries, 

 poison sumacs, larches, red maples and giant oaks. 

 A marsh is indeed often a second stage of a lake and 

 sometimes conceals a lake underneath, when it is 

 known as a quaking bog. To a landscape-gardener, 

 the value of marshes, as of all other natural landscape 

 features, lies in the hints and the suggestions they 

 give for the treatment of similar situations. 



If there is a piece of wet land on the area to be 

 studied and planned, there are three obvious treat- 



