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is permanent, and will with a minimum of attention 

 yield returns out of all proportion to its cost. It will 

 yield fresh fish for the table. It will yield healthful 

 sports for the boys and girls who should be kept at 

 home; angling, and swimming in the summer and 

 skating in the winter. It will yield beauty ; the beauty 

 of a mirroring surface, reflecting trees and hills and 



Fig. 241. A beautiful cover for a mud bank, 

 in front, then arrowheads, then sedges. 



The water-shamrock, Marsilea, 



sky and passing cloud: the beauty of the aquatics 

 planted on the shore line: the beauty of the water 

 animals, of flashing dragonfly and gyrating beetles, and 

 leaping fishes. It will add to the joy of living. 



The accompanying diagram is intended as a sugges- 

 tion for the development of a tract of upland waste wet 

 land into a water garden. Its noteworthy features are 

 found in the provision for growing forage under con- 

 trol, and, in so far as need be, apart from the animals 



