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with blighting crops, but it should be in every 

 garden, and in a large place might be planted in 

 .the shrubbery or adjacent to the British collection. 

 The queenly white Water-lily, so common in our 

 rivers, should be seen in all garden waters, not 

 thickly planted, but a single specimen or group 

 here and there. It is most effective when one or 

 a few good plants are seen alone on the water ; 

 then the flowers and leaves have full room to de- 

 velop and float right regally ; but when a dense 

 crowd of water lilies are seen together, they are 

 usually poorly developed, and crowd each other out. 

 The effect is never half so beautiful as when — 



Some scatter'd water-lily sails 

 Down where the shallower wave still tells its bubbling tales. 



See how the author of " Childe Harold" chances 

 inadvertently to note the beauty of the Water-lily 

 when isolated, compared to what it is when choked 

 together in a river bed or garden water. With it 

 should be associated the yellow Water-lily (Nuphar 

 lutea), and if the small and rare Nuphar Pumila 

 can be had, so much the better. 



Among the poppies, the only one really worth 

 growing as a garden plant is the Welsh Poppy 

 (Meconopsis cambrica), which grows so abundantly 

 along the road sides in the lake district. It is a 



