158 WALL AND WATER GARDENS 



It is always well in planting pond edges to have a 

 good quantity of the flag-like native growths — Bul- 

 rushes and Sweet-sedge and the best of the other 

 Sedges. Unless the pond is in immediate connection 

 with garden ground, masses of handsome flowering 

 plants look all the better when they are detached 

 from one another, as they are usually seen in nature. 

 It maintains the wild-garden character that is suitable 

 in places that are rather distant from the garden. 

 Equisetuvi is also one of the best of the water-side 

 plants for this use ; best in boggy ground in shade. 

 The larger of the plants described in the chapter on 

 small ponds or pools will, of course, also do well by 

 the larger water spaces. 



Where the pond adjoins the garden a more free 

 use can be made of garden plants. The pond-edge 

 in the picture has been boldly sown with Poppies 

 and Foxgloves with capital effect. In such a place 

 the perennial Oriental Poppy would also be excellent 

 and the larger of the herbaceous Spiraeas, the large 

 white-plumed ^. Aruncus, S. venusta, S. palmata, and 

 the double Meadow Sweet, 5. Ulmaria. 



Often one sees some piece of water that just misses 

 being pictorial, and yet might easily be made so. 

 Such a case is that of the sheet of water in the illus- 

 tration. It is in the park ground of a fine place 

 whose ancient gardens are full of beauty, and whose 

 environment is of grandly wooded hill and dale. The 

 abrupt line of this pond cutting straight across the 



