ird Avenue Elevated Railway to Botanical Garden, B 

 •k. Visitors coming by the Subway change to the Elev 

 ilway at 149th Street and Third Avenue. 



Why is it that aquatic gardening is not more frequently resorted 

 to in landscape effects ? Is it the fear that it may involve too great 

 an expense, or that it may be difficult to secure plants for the 

 purpose? In this as in many other things you can spend money, 

 and plenty of it too, in developing a water garden, but beautiful 

 results may be obtained with a comparatively small outlay of 

 money, for many of the plants may be secured in the immediate 

 neighborhood, the only expenditure necessary being one of time 

 and patience. There are so many spots, now unsightly or adding 

 but little to the beauty of the surroundings, that could be so 

 vastly improved by even a little care in planting, that it seems 

 incredible that they should be allowed to remain as they are. 

 Many an old swamp or bog, or a pond or lake with unsightly 

 shores, may be turned from a dreary waste of weeds and tangle 

 into a thing of beauty, awaiting but the touch of the artistic hand 

 to effect this transformation. Here may be found many plants, 

 called weeds in their uncultivated condition, which, if but trans- 

 planted and given a change, will respond quickly and well repay 

 the care and attention bestowed upon them. This is the height 

 of the horticulturist's art — to remove the enemies and unfavor- 

 able conditions, thus allowing each plant to tell its own story in 

 its own way and bring its message to mankind. 



With the site in view, the question arises, how shall we develop 

 it into a water garden ? If the old swamp be near a wood, as 

 many of these old swamps are, the work is partly done for us, 

 for this wood will make a delightful background, giving dainty 

 modulations in green during the summer, and in the fall an ever- 

 changing scheme of autumn tints. The absence of a wood need 



