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shrubs can be added between or around them. Rockwork 

 or virgin cork may be used to conceal the woodwork where 

 it is not possible to lower it into the soil ; or groups of such 

 handsome shrubs as rhododendrons, myrtles, hardy azaleas, 

 Aucuba japonica, &c., in tubs, with flowering plants in pots, 

 can be arranged with them. The outside of the tubs should 

 in this case be painted a dark olive-green, and trailing plants 

 creeping jenny (lysimachia), blue lobelia, tropaeolums, &c. 

 may be grown to hide the larger pots on a balcony or on 

 the leads of a town house. 



Where the water garden is a lake or any natural sheet 

 of water, the margins should be planted with semi-aquatic 

 plants, such as calthas (marsh marigolds), spiraeas in variety 

 (both in pink and white), Japanese and other bog irises, 

 rhododendrons, spiraeas, and many other plants which need 

 a moist situation. 



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