Hardy and Half-hardy Plants 



soil, in shade or sunshine, and can- 

 not be suppressed. They are easily 

 increased by pieces of the root in 

 spring, but will also come up like 

 weeds from seed. The leaves are 

 very large, deeply lobed, and very 

 ornamental, with a white under sur- 

 face, the fleshy fistular stems being 

 often over 1 in. in diameter, and 

 often 10-12 ft. high. 



Bog- and Water Plants. Quite 

 a large number of plants are now 

 stocked by certain nurserymen to 

 meet the demand that has arisen 

 of late years for the furnishing of 

 banks of lakes, ponds, streams, &c., 

 and also for the water itself. Plants 

 that flourish on the margins in 

 marshy spots are known as bog or 

 marsh plants, while those actually 

 growing in the water are called 

 "aquatics". Every large garden, 

 private or public, now has a water 

 garden and a bog garden, and won- 

 derful taste is displayed in rendering them beautiful objects in the land- 

 scape. The following genera supply plants that flourish, under conditions 

 mentioned, in the open air, the purely aquatic ones being indicated by an 

 asterisk (*) and the more or less tender ones by a dagger (-f). 



Fig. 185. Bocconia cordata 



Acorus. 



Alisma. 

 *Aponogeton. 



Arundo Donax. 

 *fAzolla filiculoides. 



Bambusa, vars. 

 *fBrasenia peltata. 

 *Butomus. 



Calla. 



Caltha palustris. 



Cyperus. 

 fEichhornia. 



Equisetum, vars. 



Eriophorum polystachyum. 



Gunnera. 

 fHedychium. 

 *Hottonia. 



Houttuynia. 



Iris laevigata. 



Iris Pseudacorus. 



Juncus (Rush). 

 *Jussiaea. 

 *Limnocharis. 



Menyanthes. 



Myosotis 



(Forget-me-not). 



Myrica Gale. 



Myriophyllum. 



Narthecium. 

 fNelumbium, vars. 



Nuphar luteum. 

 *tNymph3ea, vars. 



Orchids (see p. 76). 



Orontium. 



Osmunda(Royal Fern). 



Parnassia. 



Peltandra virginica. 

 *fPistia Stratiotes. 



*fPontederia crassipes. 



Primulas. 



Ranunculus Lingua. 



Rodgersia. 



Sagittaria. 

 *fSalvinia natans. 



Sarracenia. 



Saxifraga peltata. 



Scirpus lacustris. 



Spiraea. 

 *Stratiotes aloides. 



Symplocarpus fcetidus. 

 IThalia dealbata. 

 *|Trapa natans, 

 *fTrianea bogotensis. 



Typha. 

 *fVallisneria. 

 *t Victoria regia. 

 *Villarsia. 



