LILY TANKS 8i 



should be planted only with the best kinds of Water- 

 Lilies, whose formality and clearness of outline exactly fits 

 them for such places. In the beds around should be 

 grouped plants of stately foliage and somewhat stiff habit 

 — Cannas, admirable both as to their well-shaped leaves 

 and gorgeous flower-spikes, Madonna Lilies, Salvia 

 patens, Funkias, especially F. Sieboldi, Irises of sorts, 

 and the cool green of Harts-tongue. Free-growing 

 herbaceous plants must be excluded in this instance ; 

 however well adapted they may be as a setting for the 

 quiet pool in the homely manor garden, they will be as 

 weeds in the almost tropical brilliance of the formal Lily- 

 Court. 



