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and Primula Japonica seems to me enjoyable only in deep 

 shade. 



Musk is another plant which the English can grow by the 

 hundred or thousand as a ground cover in bog gardens or beds of 

 rhododendrons and azaleas. It is a dear old plant, but there are 

 much finer things for use on a large scale. We need not weep 

 because we cannot grow it well in quantity. 



Gunnera, pampas grass and flame flower (or torch lily) are 

 the only other plants of the first importance in English bog gardens 

 that are not hardy in our Northern states. 



AMERICAN EFFECTS 



On the other hand, it is highly probable that we shall be able 

 to develop an American type of bog garden which will be very 

 charming for we have a finer set of orchids and insectivorous 

 plants, and we have many finer species of the heath family, or 

 Ericaceae.* 



For studies of swamp societies see Coulter's "Plants," pages 183 to 192 and the Fifteenth Report of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, pages 38 to 71. "A New Gardening Hobby for Americans" in Garden tfofoiine for July 1907, 

 pages 343 to 34$ describes six types of bog garden. For "The Cultivation of Hardy Orchids," see Garden Magtuine for 

 August 1906, pages 12 to 15. See also works mentioned at end of Chapter VIII. 



