CHAPTER X 



THE STREAM-GARDEN AND MARSH POOLS 



WHERE there is a stream passing through the o 

 skirts of a garden, there will be a happy prospt: 

 of delightful ways of arranging and enjoying t.i 

 beautiful plants that love wet places. Even whe 

 there are no natural advantages of pictorial envirc 

 ment, given a little sinking of the level and the le; 

 trickle of water, with a simple and clever arrang 

 ment of bold groups of suitable plants, a pret 

 stream-picture may be made, as is seen by the illt 

 tration of the water-garden in a good nursery ne 

 London. 



But where there is a rather wider and more copioi 

 stream, rippling merrily over its shallow bed, the? 

 are even wider possibilities. The banks of runnir 

 water where the lovely Water Forget-me-not grov 

 are often swampy, and the path that is to be carrie 

 near one of them may probably want some such trea 

 ment as is recommended in the early part of th 

 chapter on Water Margins. When a water-garden 

 being prepared by the side of any such stream, th 

 course of the path may well be varied by running fin 

 close beside the water and then retreating a yard or tw 



