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bold leaf and blue bloom. It flourishes in rather 

 shallow water and is quite easy to grow. The upright 

 habit of growth of its leafy flower-stems is unusual 

 among aquatic plants. 



The Thalictrums should not be forgotten ; they are 

 suited for much the same kind of massing on land at 

 the water edge as the Loosestrifes. T. flavuvi, the 

 cultivated and improved form of a native plant, being 

 the finest. 



The large white Daisy, Leiicanthemum lacustre, though 

 truly a plant for wet ground and water edge, I always 

 think has a flower-garden look about it that seems to 

 make it less fit for water-gardening, where one wishes 

 to preserve the sentiment of the more typical water-side 

 and truly aquatic vegetation. 



It would be well that a good planting of Rhodo- 

 dendrons should, at one of its ends or sides, come 

 against a pond, though these shrubs are too large in 

 size and too overwhelming in their mass of bloom to 

 combine with smaller plants. But in connection with 

 a pond of Water-Lilies, the dark foliage of Rhodo- 

 dendrons, coming down to one shore and backed by 

 the deep shade of further trees, preferably Spruce for 

 the sake of their deep quiet colouring, would be a 

 noble background for the white and tender tints of 

 the Nymphaeas ; and as the Rhododendrons would 

 have done flowering before the main blooming season 

 of the Water-Lilies, the two sources of interest would 

 not clash. This would be much to the advantage of 

 both, while each would be suited with a place both 

 fitting in appearance and suited to its needs. 



