WHERE WATER GARDENS CAN BE MADE 5 



large gardens; and they also look best in 

 masses. 



A GARDEN IN A TUB 



A very satisfactory water garden was half 

 a kerosene barrel, sunk in the ground at the 

 southwest corner of a house, where a rain 

 pipe from the roof emptied into it. Here 

 the water hyacinth {Eichhornia speciosa) 

 grew and flowered, to the delight of all be- 

 holders. The tub was nearly full of earth 

 in which the plants anchored themselves by 

 their roots and were able to resist the tre- 

 mendous floods of water from the roof. All 

 through the summer there was a succession 

 of spikes of big azure flowers, each one with 

 a yellow eye-spot; and the glossy, heart- 

 shaped leaves, with their stout, spongy 

 petioles, were themselves an ornament and a 

 curiosity. More than a tubful of the plants 

 was thinned out during the season. The 

 fault of this garden, aside from its smallness, 

 was the irregularity and violence of the water 

 supply. No other plant, except perhaps a 



