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coping round it, and the grass growing right to the 
edge of the water can be made to give charming 
effects ; or, treated a little more architecturally, it can 
form the centre to the Rose garden or the terminal to a 
walk between herbaceous borders. If other means 
fail, Water-Lilies can be quite successfully grown, as 
illustrated on page 98, although this method is 
more suitable for the tiny cottage garden. Water in 
the garden in any form is always an added delight, and 
there is now such a variety of plants suitable to grow 
therein at the command of a few shillings, that no one 
need be without them on the score of expense. The 
initial outlay of preparing a home for aquatic plants is 
perhaps a little greater than in some other gardening 
pursuits, as water has to be retained, and is better laid 
on to the pool, so that the turning of a tap will keep 
the water pure and sweet. I give an illustration of 
how a lily pool of any dimensions can be constructed, 
the water turned on and the pool emptied with the least 
possible trouble. Amongst the plants that could be 
grown in such a pool are, of course, the Water-Lilies, 
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