CHAPTER XII 



AQUATICS AND BOG PLANTS 



THE following lists of plants suitable for water and bog 

 gardens will doubtless be of assistance to those who are 

 in any difficulty as to selection. If many beautiful and 

 interesting kinds are omitted, it is that, from an embarras 

 de richesse, space can only be found for a moderate 

 number. In any case, a collection formed of the whole 

 or greater part of the plants enumerated, could not be 

 considered other than typical 5 only in very large gardens 

 could more be included. 



PLANTS FOR WATER MARGINS 



The following are mostly of noble growth, and are 

 chiefly valuable for their fine foliage: 



Gunnera scabra. 

 G. manicata. 

 Rheum Emodi. 

 R. palmatum. 

 Carex pendula. 

 Osmunda regalis. 



Heracleum giganteum. 

 H. mantegazzianum. 

 Arundo donax. 

 Gynerium argenteum. 

 Equisetum Telmateia. 

 Bamboos. 



Flowering plants for massing by the waterside : 



Iris Kaempferi. 

 I. sibirica. 

 Spiraea gigantea. 

 S. astilboides. 

 S. Lindleyana. 

 S. palmata. 



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Lythrum Salicaria. 

 Lysimachia vulgaris. 

 Bupthalmum speciosum. 

 Thalictrum aquilegifolium. 

 Senecio japonicus. 

 Polygonum sachalinense. 

 Petasites vulgaris. 



