20 Special Features of the Garden 



they will not run the constant risk of chill. If glass 

 is between them and the sun so much the better. 



A specie of plants which are not commonly 

 cultivated are the water plants. They not only 

 provide a flower different in type from the garden 

 plants but they are novelties which soon win their 

 way into the hearts of flower lovers and retain 

 for themselves a prominent place in the garden 

 catalogues . Water plants may be grown with equal 

 success indoors or out if the conditions are favor- 

 able, and while the variety is not extensive most 

 of them are beautiful enough that the owners 

 will not tire of them. There is no flower more 

 beautiful in form nor more delicious in fragrance 

 than the old-fashioned pond lily. It grows and 

 flourishes from Maine to Florida and from Cali- 

 fornia to New York, though its season is short 

 in the colder sections of the country. However 

 it is well worth cultivating for the short time it 

 does last. This flower is not often used as an 

 indoor plant because of its demand for water, and 

 yet where it can be used it furnishes a most 

 beautiful means of decoration. I once attended a 

 wedding in the little town of Bagdad, Florida, at 

 eight o'clock in the morning, where the decoration 

 consisted solely of pond lilies and smilax in Kate 

 Greenaway baskets hanging from the chandeliers 



