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The bamboos on the opposit 

 ful fringe to the pool, their arching stems bending over and form- 

 ing an effective background for the aquatics. 



In the pool will be found many interesting plants. Among the 

 water-lilies is one unusual in cultivation, Castalia pulc/iella, from 

 tropical America. This specimen was secured in the Bahamas 

 by one of the Garden expeditions which visited that region. 

 Castalia flava, near by, from our own state of Florida, was lost 



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 of the most charming membt 

 from tropical America, Piai 



of hybrid productior 

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is of interest, not only for its beauty 

 when in flower, but from the fact that it at one time seriously 

 interfered with navigation in the St. Johns River in Florida. It 



during the summer time. A small piece will soon grow into an 

 attractive mass of bright green, which often develops showy 

 clusters of purple flowers, somewhat resembling in shape bunches 

 of hyacinths, hence its popular name. The parrot's-feather, 

 Myriophyllum proserfiinacoides, from South America, with its deli- 

 cate feathery masses of green is a desirable decorative plant. It is 

 said to be hardy here in the north in water three or four feet deep. 

 The water-poppy, Hydrocleys nymphoides, sometimes known as 

 Limnocharis Humboldtii, of tropical America, and the water- snow- 

 flake, Limnanthemum indicum, of tropical regions generally, are 



lettuce, Pistia Stratiotes, belonging to the aroid family, and the float- 

 ing fern, Ceratopteris thalictroides, of Florida and tropical regions, 

 will be found growing in receptacles hanging from the edge of 

 the bridge. The South American pickerel-weed, Pontederia 

 montevidensis, much resembling the common plant of our own 

 marshes and river banks, will be found on the south side of the 

 pool. Near it is an unusual plant from tropical America, Lim- 

 nocharis emarsrinata. sometimes known as L. Plumicri, from 



