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large, handsome leaves 'are very prnaniental in young plants. 

 It will grow: to the height 'f 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 ARUM FAMILY. 



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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 in moist places in 

 a rockery 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 one 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 in 

 a rockery. 



Wild Calla, Calla palustris. 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. 



THE WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY. 



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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, 



