IX 



WATER IN THE GARDEN 



There Is no question as to the charm which 

 is added to a garden by a little water — an eye 

 of blue with brows of rush or tropic c:rasses if 

 you please, though it is better for a small pool 

 to be rimmed plainly with cement or stone and to 

 show all of Itself It can. If only a couple of 

 yards in diameter there Is an Impression of 

 crowding when vegetation Is placed in It; at 

 least, anything more than a single plant, and for 

 that plant I would choose our common pond- 

 lily, white and fragrant, an Ivory star with cen- 

 tral rays of gold. If we are able to widen the 

 basin, however, we can add the water-poppy or 

 the water-hyacinth, which flowers in summer in 

 our northern climate, and which. In southern 

 rivers spreads In such weedy luxuriance that gov- 

 ernment has to spend large sums yearly to clear 

 the channels for navigation. It has no root In 

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