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of the year — in flower, in fruit, and when the leaves 

 are gone, for then the remarkable grace of the 

 little tree can best be seen. For this use the old 

 English Quince, with the smooth roundish fruits, is 

 by far the best, the varieties that bear the largest 

 pear-shaped fruit being not nearly so graceful in 

 habit. 



The native Water Elder {Viburnum Opulus) is a 

 grand bush or small tree, and should be largely 

 planted by the water-side. Where garden meets 

 water, is one of the many and one of the best of 

 places for its derivative, the Guelder Rose. Among 

 foreign hardy bushes one above all is precious for 

 the water-side, the Snowdrop Tree {Halesia tetrapterd) 

 from North America, I have grown it both as bush 

 and tree ; and in every shape, and for all garden uses, 

 have found it one of the very best of deciduous 

 flowering shrubs. 



The pond water-garden naturally leads to the bog- 

 garden ; indeed the tendency of the valley pond to 

 silt up at its upper end, where the stream that feeds it 

 lets fall the lighter particles it has held suspended and 

 leaves the heavier ones that it has driven along its bed, 

 points to this region of boggy deposit, narrowing to 

 the true stream, as the proper place to grow many 

 bog-plants. 



Here, in the case of many swamp-loving things, will 

 be found ready made, quite as good if not better places 

 than could possibly be prepared for them, while other 

 spaces within the moist influence of the region can 

 easily be adapted for others that we may wish to grow. 



