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ferent aquatics, to make a variety. There is the 

 Sagittaria Montevidensis, which attains gigantic 

 proportions, growing four or five feet high with 

 leaves fifteen inches long, the flower towering 

 above, the foliage white with dark blotches at the 

 ba^e of each petal. Then there is the Butterfly 

 Lily, a tender sub-aquatic plant that forms a dense 

 clump three to six feet high bearing masses of pure 

 white fragrant flowers that look like large white 

 butterflies borne in large terminal clusters. 



The Water Poppy must not be forgotten. It is a 

 very pretty aquatic plant with floating leaves and 

 large yellow poppy-like flowers, and a continual 

 bloomer. 



The border of the lily pond is of almost as much 

 importance as the flowers themselves. Iris makes 

 a good setting. Of these, the Iris Hexagona, or 

 Blue Flag, is interesting from the fact that it is a 

 hardy Southern kind, showing rich purple and blue 

 with yellow markings three to four inches across 

 and resembling the costliest and rarest orchid flow- 

 ers. The Dalmatica is one of the finest of the Ger- 

 man type. It grows four feet high with excep- 

 tionally large flowers of fine lavender, the falls 

 shaded blue. The Japanese Iris is the grandest of 



