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Osmunda Regalis. Royal Fern. 



Spiraa Palmata. Fine foliage. The flowers produced 

 in dense clusters are a soft rosy pink. 



Arundo Donax. The Great Reed. 



Buphthalmum Speciosum. A handsome plant with 

 heart-shaped leaves. The flowers are yellow with dark 

 centres. 



Gynerium Argenteum. Pampas Grass. 



Lythrum Salicaria. Purple Loosestrife. This is the 

 well-known showy plant of the country streams. For 

 garden culture the improved variety roseum should be 

 grown. 



The plants enumerated above will make an interesting 

 collection for the water garden, others can be added from 

 time to time. The great point to be observed is the 

 proper regulation of plants of varying growth, so as to 

 prevent overcrowding. Water gardens are frequently 

 made and filled with interesting subjects, but owing to 

 neglect the coarse growing plants are allowed to mono- 

 polise the space and crowd out those of shyer habit. 



PLANTS FOR THE BOG GARDEN 



Cypripedium Spectabile. Mocassin-flower. This is per- 

 haps the finest of all bog plants, and hails from the 

 woods of North America, where it grows to perfection. 

 The plant forms handsome clumps, and the flowers are 

 white marked with a rosy blotch. 



Primula Japonica. This plant revels in the cool sur- 

 roundings of the bog garden, and produces an abundance 

 of rich crimson blossoms. P. rosea is a smaller variety, 

 with polyanthus tufts of delicate pink flowers. P. sikki- 

 mensis, with pale yellow flowers, is distinct. 



Dielytra Spectabilis. Bleeding Heart. 



Trillium. Wood Lily. A beautiful plant, with rich 

 green foliage and snowy three-petalled flowers. 



Parnassia Palustris* Grass of Parnassus. An easily 



