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should be planted only with the best kinds of Water- 

 Lilies, whose formality and clearness of outline exactly fits 

 them for such places. In the beds around should be 

 grouped plants of stately foliage and somewhat stiff habit 

 Cannas, admirable both as to their well-shaped leaves 

 and gorgeous flower-spikes, Madonna Lilies, Salvia 

 patens, Funkias, especially F. Sieboldi, Irises of sorts, 

 and the cool green of Harts-tongue. Free-growing 

 herbaceous plants must be excluded in this instance ; 

 however well adapted they may be as a setting for the 

 quiet pool in the homely manor garden, they will be as 

 weeds in the almost tropical brilliance of the formal Lily- 

 Court. 



