NATURAL FEATURES 23 



*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 occidentals: 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 



