CHAPTER VI. 



Aquatic Adjuncts of a Rock Garden. 



It will have been gathered from the not infrequent 

 references to the association of Alpine and water 

 plants that it is regarded as quite permissible in a 

 garden. One will not see a colony of Ladies* Slippers, 

 or a group of the exquisite white Wood Lily (Trillium 

 grandiflorum), or a circle of NymphcBus, growing in 

 close proximity to Alpine plants on a Swiss mountain, 

 but that need not debar one from enjoying the beauty 

 of all in a garden. 



The flower-lover who can command the use of water 

 is missing a great deal of the pleasure and interest of 

 gardening if he does not take advantage of his oppor- 

 tunities and bring moisture-loving plants into his 

 scheme. Water, and the surroundings of water, have a 

 charm of their own. Aquatic plants have a beauty that 

 distinguishes them from all other classes of flowers. 



It is especially in the summer time that the water 

 garden exercises its undoubted sway. It needs a 

 truly enthusiastic flower-lover to find pleasure in it 

 when the water lies dull and metallic under a cold 

 gray sky, and when piercing winds set the melancholy 

 reeds rustling. The strenuous spirit who can fish a 

 highland tarn in a blizzard, and sleep under canvas 



