BROOK-SIDE, WATER-SIDE, AND BOG GARDENS. 79 
Golden Club (Orontium), Water Arum (Calla palustris), and 
a host of other handsome and interesting bog-plants cover 
the ground for hundreds of acres, with perhaps an occasional 
slender bush of Laurel Magnolia (Magnolia glauca) among 
them. In some parts of Canada, where the painfully long 
and straight roads are often made through woody swamps, 
and where the few scattered and poor habitations offer little 
to cheer the traveller, he will, if a lover of plants, find con- 
The same spot as in opposite sketch, with aftergrowth of Iris, Meadow Sweet, 
and Bindweed. (See p. 77.) 
servatories of beauty in the ditches and pools of black 
water beside the road, fringed with the sweet-scented Button- 
bush, with a profusion of stately ferns, and often filled with 
masses of the pretty Sagittarias. 
Southwards and seawards, the bog-flowers become tropical 
in size and brilliancy, as in the splendid kinds of herbaceous 
Hibiscus, while far north, and west and south along the 
mountains, the beautiful and showy Mocassin-flower (Cypri- 
pedium spectabile) grows the queen of the peat bog. Then 
in California, all along the Sierras, there are a number of 
delicate little annual plants growing in small mountain bogs 
