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damper places of the Daffodils agreeing with the 

 drier of the Snowflake. Here again the addition of 

 groups of Marsh Marigold would come very well. 



There are still three important wild river-side plants 

 that are worthy ornaments of the water edge. The 

 Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia) and the purple Loose- 

 strife (Ly thrum) ; both are excellent things to use in 

 large masses at the edge of pond or pool. Of the 

 Lythrum there is an improved kind with still brighter 

 flowers than the type. Here is also the Tansy, a 

 plant that makes a considerable show with its large 

 level-topped corymbs of hard yellow flower. It is a 

 plant that will grow anywhere, but is especially luxu- 

 riant near water. 



The Water- Violet (Hottonia palustris), in the fore- 

 ground of the picture at page 119, is another pretty 

 native that must have a place in the water-garden. It 

 should be somewhere near the path in rather shallow 

 still water, so that the tufts of submerged leaves can 

 be seen as well as the flower-spikes. 



So far no plant has been named that is not wild in 

 England, and yet here already is a goodly company ; 

 indeed the foreign plants for the water-garden are 

 not so very many in number though they are ex- 

 tremely important. 



The two great Gunneras, herbaceous plants with 

 enormous radical leaves, something like the leaves of 

 Heracleum six times magnified, are noble plants for the 

 water's edge. The illustration shows Gunnera manicata 

 at the R.H.S. garden at Wisley, well placed on the 



