Brook-side, Water and Bog Gardens 1 1 r 



grown in moist peat soil. Many beautiful plants, like 

 the Wind Gentian and Creeping Harebell, grow on our 

 own bogs and marshes, much as these are now en- 

 croached upon. But even those who see the beauty of 

 the plants of our own bogs have, as a rule, but a feeble 

 notion of the multitude of charming plants, natives of 

 northern and temperate countries, whose home is the 

 open marsh or the boggy wood. In our own country, 



The Bajne spot as iu opposite sketch, with aftergrowth of Iris. Meadow-sweet, and 

 Bindweed. (See p. 1 lO.j 



we have been so long encroaching upon the bogs that 

 some of us come to regard these as exceptional tracts 

 all over the world. But in new countries in northern 

 climes, one soon learns what a vast extent of the world's 

 surface was at one time covered with bogs. In North 

 America day after day, even from the railroads, one sees 

 the vivid spikes of the Cardinal-flower springing from 

 the wet peaty hollows. Far under the shady woods 

 stretch the black bog-pools, the ground between being 

 so shaky that you move a few steps with difficulty. 



