A Water Garden 



The wild Caraway and the Yarrow 

 show white among the grass, and there is 

 a wonderful rosy hue in the tall spikes of 

 Dock that are blooming near by. The 

 Forget-me-nots are still full of blue blos- 

 soms, and spread out into the water far 

 and wide, the earliest to come and the 

 last to go of all the simple ornaments of 

 the water garden. 



But the glory of the pool is the Cardi- Water-lay 

 nal-flower, of rich dark red, which lifts *r<! * 

 its bracted racemes proudly, and with the 

 dignity of a true hierarch. This shows to 

 advantage for the first time this year, hav- 

 ing before fallen a victim to the careless 

 scythe, so that its blossoms, which it per- 

 sisted in putting forth in spite of discour- 

 agements, were only a few inches high. 

 But this summer no mower was allowed 

 to come within six feet of the spot, and 

 we are well rewarded by the glow and 

 stateliness of this superb flower, which 

 would be an ornament to the proudest 

 parterre. The Water-lily bulbs that we 

 got from a nursery in the spring have 

 proved a failure, whether because they 

 were planted too deep in the mud or be- 

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