high-priced variety. He seems to be a connoisseur in such 

 matters, and at times appears to select with unerring instinct the 

 costly plants. The aphis, or green-fly, is sometimes troublesome, 

 and is perhaps best disposed of by their natural enemy, the " lady 

 bird." Syringing and spraying with tobacco water is also effec- 

 tive. Another troublesome pest is the leaf-miner, which makes 

 unsightly furrows in the leaf surface. He can be pretty 

 thoroughly exterminated with kerosene emulsion, applied in the 



become troublesome, may be conquered with Bordeaux mixture. 

 To emphasize what I have said in the foregoing pages, permit 

 me to call attention to the illustrations accompanying this article, 

 which were made from photograghs taken some years ago by 

 my father in his water garden at Clifton, New Jersey. On his 

 place there was an old swamp full of tussocks and little pools of 

 stagnant water, as old swamps are, and ■ the breeding place of 

 countless mosquitoes. The first illustration depicts this as it was. 

 Taken in the winter time, it does not show the tangle of weeds 

 which made this place unsightly during the summer. Through 

 this swamp meandered a brook which had its origin in a swampy 

 woods near by, and on either side gently sloping hillsides rose to 

 the higher ground beyond. My father conceived the idea of de- 

 veloping this as a water garden, and I will let the succeeding 

 illustrations tell the story of how well he succeeded in carrying 

 out this conception. I will, however, add a word as to the gen- 

 eral development of the tract. A dam was thrown across the 

 lower end, backing the water up several feet. The tussocks were 



and one which experience has now shown can be done much 

 more simply and with much less cost by merely keeping the 

 leaves of the tussocks cut down as they appear at or near the 

 surface, thus drowning the plants out, since such plants must 

 have access to the air to live. The water of the pond thus formed 

 was too cold for the more tender lilies and for the Victoria regia. 

 That these might be grown, a cement pond, irregular in shape, 

 was placed on one of the sloping sides of the swamp, sufficiently 



