76 THE WILD GARDEN, 
If with this water-garden we combine the wild garden of 
land plants—herbaceous, trailers, etc.—some of the loveliest 
effects possible in gardens will be produced. The margins of 
lakes and streams are happily not upturned by the spade in 
winter ; and hereahouts, just away from the water-line, almost 
any vigorous and really hardy flower of the thousands now in 
our gardens may be grown and will after- 
wards take care of itself. The Globe- 
flowers alone would form beauti- 
{ ful effects in such positions, and 
| would endure as long as the Grass. 
Near the various Ivises that love 
the water-side might be planted 
those that thrive in moist 
ground, and they are many, 
including the most beautiful 
kinds. Among recently in- 
troduced plants the singular 
Californian Saxifraga peltata 
is likely to prove a noble 
one for the water-side, its 
natural habitat being beside 
mountain watercourses, dry 
Day Lily by margin of water. in the autumn when it is 
at rest; both flowers and foliage are effective, and the 
growth very vigorous when in moist ground. It would 
require a very long list to enumerate all the plants that 
would grow near the margins of water, and apart from 
the aquatics proper; but enough has been said to prove that, 
given a strip of ground beside a stream or lake, a garden of 
